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-Internet Draft T. Hansen
-draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-00.txt AT&T Laboratories
-Valid for six months K. Lin
- Lotus Development Corporation
- September 8, 1999
-
-
-
- Message Tracking Model
-
- <draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-00.txt>
-
- Authors' version: 1.6
-
- Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
-Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
-any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This memo and its companions are discussed on the MSGTRK working
-group mailing list, ietf-msgtrk[-request]@imc.org.
-
-Copyright Notice
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
-Abstract
-
- Customers buying enterprise message systems often ask: Can I track
-the messages? Message tracking is the ability to find out the path that
-a particular message has taken through a messaging system and the
-current routing status of that message. This document provides a model
-of message tracking that can be used for understanding the Internet-wide
-
-
-
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-
-
-message infrastructure and to further enhance those capabilities to
-include message tracking.
-
-1. Problem Statement
-
- Consider sending a package through a package delivery companys.
-Once you've sent a package, you would like to be able to find out if the
-package has been delivered or not, and if not, where that package
-currently is and what its status is. Note that the status of a package
-may not include whether it was delivered to its addressee, but just the
-destination. Many package carriers provide such services today, often
-via a web interface.
-
- Message tracking extends that capability to the Internet-wide mes-
-sage infrastructure, analogous to the service provided by package car-
-riers: the ability to quickly locate where a message (package) is, and
-to determine whether or not the message (package) has been delivered to
-its final destination. An Internet-standard approach will allow the
-development of message tracking applications that can operate in a
-multi-vendor messaging environment, and will encourage the operation of
-the function across administrative boundaries.
-
-2. Definitions
-The following terms are relevant to message tracking. The terms Track-
-ing User Agent and Tracking Server are new, while all other terms have
-been collected here from other sources.
-
- Originating Mail User Agent (MUA)
- The originating mail user agent is the software used to
- compose and originate a message. It is the software sit-
- ting on a person's desktop.
-
- Originating Mail Submission Agent (MSA)
- The Mail Submission Agent accepts a message from a User
- Agent, adds or modifies whatever headers are appropriate
- for the message's traversal through the Internet, and
- injects the message into the network via a Message
- Transfer Agent. (The UA and MSA are often combined into
- the same program.)
-
- Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- A Message Transfer Agent accepts a message and moves it
- forward towards its destination. That destination may be
- local or reached via another MTA. It may use a local
- queue to store the message before transferring it
- further. Any MTA may generate a Non-Delivery Notifica-
- tion.
-
-
-
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- Intermediate Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- An Intermediate MTA is an MTA that accepts a message for
- transfer somewhere else.
-
- Final Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- A Final MTA is an MTA that accepts a message for local
- delivery. It is the final place that a message is
- accepted. The final MTA is what sends any Delivery
- Status Notificatons (DSNs).
-
- Foreign Message Transfer Agent
- A foreign MTA provides delivery of messages using other
- protocols than those specified for Internet mail, such as
- an X.400 mail system.
-
- Gateway Message Transfer Agent (GW-MTA)
- A gateway MTA accepts a message for transfer to a foreign
- MTA outside of the Internet protocol space.
-
- Local Delivery Agent (DA)
- The local Delivery Agent delivers the message to the
- local message store. (The MTA and DA are often combined
- into the same program.)
-
- Delivery Status Notification (DSN)
- A Delivery Status Notification [RFC-DSN] is produced by
- an MTA when a message is unsuccessfully delivered, either
- to its next hop or the final message store, or when it is
- successfully delivered, either to a foreign MTA or to a
- local delivery agent. Positive notifications are only
- performed [RFC-ESMTP-DSN] when specifically requested.
-
- Non-Delivery Notification (NDN)
- A non-delivery notification is a special form of DSN
- indicating unsuccessful delivery.
-
- Message Disposition Notification (MDN)
- A Message Disposition Notification is used to report the
- disposition of a message after it has been successfully
- delivered to a recipient.
-
- Tracking User Agent (TUA)
- A tracking user agent wants to find information on a mes-
- sage on the behalf of a user. It is the requestor or
- initiator of such a request. (The MUA and TUA could be
- combined into the same program.)
-
- Tracking Server
-
-
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- A tracking server provides tracking information to a
- tracking client. It is the repository of the information
- about a message for the traversal through a particular
- MTA. (The tracking server and MTA may run on the same
- system.)
-
-3. Entities
-
- The entities involved in message tracking are: message user
-agents, message submission agents, message transfer agents, tracking
-user agents and tracking servers.
-
-4. Interaction Models
-
- There are several models by which messages can be tracked, and by
-which information can be requested and gathered.
-
-4.1. Pre-Hoc Model
-
- The pre-hoc model, also known as the "passive or "ask now" models,
-requires the user agent to put into the message envelope an indication
-that some form of tracking is to be performed. The tracking information
-can be sent back immediately (as a form of telemetry) or stored for
-later retrieval.
-
- Forms of tracking information that could potentially be requested
-are as follow. Note that mechanisms already exist for requesting the
-information marked with a (+). The references for such mechanisms are
-listed at the end of each such entry.
-
- ** send a DSN of a message arriving at an intermediate MTA
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being rejected while at an inter-
- mediate MTA [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message leaving an intermediate MTA and
- going to another MTA [RFC-DELIVERY-BY]
-
- ** send a DSN of a message arriving at a final MTA
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being rejected while at a final
- MTA [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being delivered to a user's mes-
- sage store [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being delivered to a foreign MTA
- [RFC-DSN]
-
-
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- ** (+) send an MDN of a message being read by an end user [RFC-
- MDN]
-
- ** indicate that logging of the message's traversal should be
- performed for later retrieval
-
- ** indicate that logging of the message's traversal should be
- sent to a 3rd party
-
-4.2. Post-Hoc Model
-
- The post-hoc model, also known as the "query" or "ask later" model,
-requires an active query by a user's user agent to either the intermedi-
-ate MTAs and final MTA, or to a third party, to find the message's
-status as known by that MTA. The responses might be something like:
-the message has been queued for later delivery, the message was
-delivered locally, the message was delivered to another MTA, ask a dif-
-ferent tracking server, I know but can't tell you, or I don't know. The
-post-hoc model may or may not require an earlier pre-hoc declaration
-that logging of the message's traversal should occur. (Note that no
-mechanisms currently exist for requesting such information.)
-
-4.3. Hybrid Models
-
- A number of hybrid models exist. In a hybrid model, pre-hoc
-mechanisms are combined with post-hoc mechanisms to provide a total mes-
-sage tracking solution. The model would include existing pre-hoc
-mechanisms, possible new pre-hoc mechanisms, and new mechanisms for
-post-hoc tracking. A UA may be required to start the process by estab-
-lishing pre-hoc information which is then communicated with the MTAs. A
-tracking user agent would then use all possible information sources to
-answer the question of "what happened to message XX"?
-
-5. Security
-
- The security aspects of message tracking revolve around the follow-
-ing areas:
-
- ** Who is permitted to request tracking information?
-
- ** How does a tracking user agent prove that they are permitted
- to request such information?
-
- ** How does the tracking user agent identify the messages being
- tracked?
-
-
-
-
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-5.1. Who is Permitted to Request Tracking Information?
-
- Only the originators of messages are allowed to track their mes-
-sages. An originator may delegate this responsibility to a third party.
-
-5.2. How Does a Tracking User Agent Prove that They are Permitted to
-Request Such Information?
-
- One possible mechanism to prove that a tracking request comes the
-originator is for the originator to calculate a one-way hash A from the
-message ID + time stamp + a per-user secret. The user then calculates
-another one-way hash B to be the hash of A. The user includes B in the
-submitted message, and retains A. Later, when the user makes a message
-tracking request to the messaging system or tracking entity, it submits
-A in the tracking request. The entity receiving the tracking request
-then uses A to calculate B, since it was already provided B, verifying
-that the requestor is authentic. In summary,
-
- A = H(message ID + time stamp + secret)
-
- B = H(A)
-
-This is similar in technique to the methods used for One-Time Passwords
-[RFC-OTP].
-
- If the originator of a message were to delegate his or her tracking
-request to a third party by sending them A, this would be vulnerable to
-snooping over unencrypted sessions. The user can decide on a message-
-by-message basis if this risk is acceptable.
-
-5.3. How does the tracking user agent identify the messages being
-tracked?
-
- Every [RFC-822]-compliant message is supposed to contain a
-Message-Id header. This header could be used to be the primary means of
-message identification.
-
-6. References
-
-
- [RFC-DSN] Moore, K., and G. Vaudreuil, "An Extensible Message For-
- mat for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 1894, Univer-
- sity of Tennessee, Octel Network Services, January 1996.
-
- [RFC-ESMTP-DSN]
- Moore, K., "SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status
- Notifications", RFC 1891, University of Tennessee, Janu-
- ary 1996.
-
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- [RFC-SMTP]Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", STD 10, RFC
- 821, USC/Information Sciences Institute, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-822] Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet
- Text Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, UDEL, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-MDN] Fajman, R., "An Extensible Message Format for Message
- Disposition Notifications", RFC 2298, National Institutes
- of Health, March 1998.
-
- [RFC-DELIVER-BY]
- Newman, D., "Deliver By SMTP Service Extension", draft-
- newman-deliver-02.txt, Innosoft, January 1999.
-
- [RFC-OTP] Haller, N., Metz, C., Nesser, P., Straw, M., "A One-Time
- Password System", RFC 2289, Bellcore, Kaman Sciences Cor-
- poration, Nesser & Nesser Consulting, Bellcore, February
- 1998.
-
-7. Acknowledgements
-
- This document is the product of input from many people and many
-sources. It owes much to earlier work by Gordon Jones, Bruce Ernst and
-Greg Vaudreuil.
-
-8. Authors' Addresses
- Tony Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- USA
-
- Phone: +1 732 576-3207
- E-Mail: tony@att.com
-
- Ken Lin
- Lotus Development Corporation
- 640 Lee Road
- Wayne, PA 19087
-
- Phone: +1 610 251-3380
- E-Mail: ken_lin@lotus.com
-
-9. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
-others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or
-
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-assist in its implmentation may be prepared, copied, published and dis-
-tributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided
-that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all
-such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not
-be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or
-references to the Internet Society or other Internet organisations,
-except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in
-which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Stan-
-dards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into
-languages other than English.
-
- The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
-revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
-
- This document and the information contained herein is provided on
-an "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
-TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT
-NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL
-NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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-Internet Draft T. Hansen
-draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-01.txt AT&T Laboratories
-Valid for six months K. Lin
- Lotus Development Corporation
- March 10, 2000
-
-
-
- Message Tracking Model and Requirements
-
- <draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-01.txt>
-
- Authors' version: 1.11
-
- Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
-Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
-any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This memo and its companions are discussed on the MSGTRK working
-group mailing list, ietf-msgtrk[-request]@imc.org.
-
-Copyright Notice
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
-Abstract
-
- Customers buying enterprise message systems often ask: Can I track
-the messages? Message tracking is the ability to find out the path that
-a particular message has taken through a messaging system and the
-current routing status of that message. This document provides a model
-of message tracking that can be used for understanding the Internet-wide
-
-
-
-Hansen,Lin [Page 1]
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-
-message infrastructure and to further enhance those capabilities to
-include message tracking, as well as requirements for proposed message
-tracking solutions.
-
-1. Problem Statement
-
- Consider sending a package through a package delivery company.
-Once you've sent a package, you would like to be able to find out if the
-package has been delivered or not, and if not, where that package
-currently is and what its status is. Note that the status of a package
-may not include whether it was delivered to its addressee, but just the
-destination. Many package carriers provide such services today, often
-via a web interface.
-
- Message tracking extends that capability to the Internet-wide mes-
-sage infrastructure, analogous to the service provided by package car-
-riers: the ability to quickly locate where a message (package) is, and
-to determine whether or not the message (package) has been delivered to
-its final destination. An Internet-standard approach will allow the
-development of message tracking applications that can operate in a
-multi-vendor messaging environment, and will encourage the operation of
-the function across administrative boundaries.
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
-document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
-2. Definitions
-The following terms are relevant to message tracking. The terms Track-
-ing User Agent and Tracking Server are new, while all other terms have
-been collected here from other sources.
-
- Originating Mail User Agent (MUA)
- The originating mail user agent is the software used to
- compose and originate a message. It is the software sit-
- ting on a person's desktop.
-
- Originating Mail Submission Agent (MSA)
- The Mail Submission Agent accepts a message from a User
- Agent, adds or modifies whatever headers are appropriate
- for the message's traversal through the Internet, and
- injects the message into the network via a Message
- Transfer Agent. (The UA and MSA are often combined into
- the same program.)
-
- Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- A Message Transfer Agent accepts a message and moves it
- forward towards its destination. That destination may be
-
-
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- local or reached via another MTA. It may use a local
- queue to store the message before transferring it
- further. Any MTA may generate a Non-Delivery Notifica-
- tion.
-
- Intermediate Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- An Intermediate MTA is an MTA that accepts a message for
- transfer somewhere else.
-
- Final Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- A Final MTA is an MTA that accepts a message for local
- delivery. It is the final place that a message is
- accepted. The final MTA is what sends any Delivery
- Status Notificatons (DSNs).
-
- Foreign Message Transfer Agent
- A foreign MTA provides delivery of messages using other
- protocols than those specified for Internet mail, such as
- an X.400 mail system.
-
- Gateway Message Transfer Agent (GW-MTA)
- A gateway MTA accepts a message for transfer to a foreign
- MTA outside of the Internet protocol space.
-
- Local Delivery Agent (DA)
- The local Delivery Agent delivers the message to the
- local message store. (The MTA and DA are often combined
- into the same program.)
-
- Delivery Status Notification (DSN)
- A Delivery Status Notification [RFC-DSN] is produced by
- an MTA when a message is unsuccessfully delivered, either
- to its next hop or the final message store, or when it is
- successfully delivered, either to a foreign MTA or to a
- local delivery agent. Positive notifications are only
- performed [RFC-ESMTP-DSN] when specifically requested.
-
- Non-Delivery Notification (NDN)
- A non-delivery notification is a special form of DSN
- indicating unsuccessful delivery.
-
- Message Disposition Notification (MDN)
- A Message Disposition Notification is used to report the
- disposition of a message after it has been successfully
- delivered to a recipient.
-
- Tracking User Agent (TUA)
- A tracking user agent wants to find information on a
-
-
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- message on the behalf of a user. It is the requestor or
- initiator of such a request. (The MUA and TUA could be
- combined into the same program.)
-
- Tracking Server
- A tracking server provides tracking information to a
- tracking client. It is the repository of the information
- about a message for the traversal through a particular
- MTA. (The tracking server and MTA may run on the same
- system.)
-
-3. Entities
-
- The entities involved in message tracking are: message user
-agents, message submission agents, message transfer agents, tracking
-user agents and tracking servers.
-
-4. Requirements
-
- These are requirements that any message tracking solution must be
-able to satisfy:
-
- The message tracking solution:
-
- ** MUST scale to the internet.
-
- ** MUST be easy to deploy.
-
- ** SHOULD maximize the reuse of existing, already deployed tech-
- nology and infrastructure.
-
- ** SHOULD extend existing protocols and not invent new ones.
-
- ** SHOULD have a low implementation cost. (This makes it easy to
- incorporate into existing products.)
-
- ** MUST restrict tracking of a message to the originator of the
- message (or a delegate).
-
- ** MUST be able to do authentication.
-
- ** MAY allow an originator to delegate this responsibility to a
- third party.
-
- ** SHOULD have the property that they would allow per-message
- delegation of the tracking responsibility.
-
- ** MUST require a tracking user agent to prove that they are
-
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- permitted to request the tracking information.
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- ** MUST be able to uniquely identify messages.
-
- ** MUST require every message to have unique identification.
-
-5. Interaction Models
-
- There are several models by which tracking of messages can be
-enabled, by which messages can be tracked, and by which information can
-be requested and gathered.
-
-5.1. Tracking Enabling Models
-
- Either the envelope or message header must contain enough informa-
-tion to track a message and securely retrieve information about the mes-
-sage. Any message that does have enough information to track it is by
-definition not trackable.
-
- If there is not enough information available in current standard
-envelopes or message headers, then the current standards will need to be
-extended. Either the MUA or MSA must determine the additional informa-
-tion and enable the tracking by adding the additional information to
-either the envelope or header.
-
- This leads to two tracking enabling models: passive enabling and
-active enabling.
-
-5.1.1. Passive Enabling Model
-The "passive enabling" model assumes that there is sufficient informa-
-tion available. No UA or MSA interaction occurs to turn tracking on; it
-is on by default.
-
-5.1.2. Active Enabling Model
-
- The "active enabling" model requires that the MUA and MSA exchange
-information when the message is submitted. This exchange indicates that
-logging of the message's traversal should be performed, as well as pro-
-viding enough additional information to allow the message to be tracked.
-This information will need to be passed on to subsequent MTAs as needed.
-
-5.2. Tracking Request Models
-There are several models by which tracking information may be requested.
-
-5.2.1. Passive Request Model
-
- The "passive request" model requires active enabling to indicate
-that some form of tracking is to be performed. The tracking information
-
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-can be sent back immediately (as a form of telemetry) or sent to a 3rd
-party for later retrieval.
-
-5.2.2. Passive Request Tracking Information
-
- Forms of passive tracking information that could potentially be
-requested are as follows. Note that mechanisms already exist for
-requesting the information marked with a (+). The references for such
-mechanisms are listed at the end of each such entry.
-
- ** send a DSN of a message arriving at an intermediate MTA
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being rejected while at an inter-
- mediate MTA [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message leaving an intermediate MTA and
- going to another MTA [RFC-DELIVER-BY]
-
- ** send a DSN of a message arriving at a final MTA
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being rejected while at a final
- MTA [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being delivered to a user's mes-
- sage store [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being delivered to a foreign MTA
- [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send an MDN of a message being read by an end user [RFC-
- MDN]
-
-5.3. Active Request Model
-
- The "active request" model requires an active query by a user's
-user agent to either the intermediate MTAs and final MTA, or to a third
-party, to find the message's status as known by that MTA. Active
-request will work with either passive enabling or active enabling.
-
-5.3.1. Server Chaining vs. Server Referrals
-When a tracking server has been asked for tracking information, and the
-message has been passed on to another MTA of which this tracking server
-has no tracking knowledge, there are two modelling choices:
-
- ** the first tracking server will contact the next tracking
- server to query for status and pass back the combined status
- (server chaining), or
-
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- ** the first tracking server will return the address of the next
- MTA and the tracking client has the responsibility of contact-
- ing the next tracking server (server referrals).
-
-5.3.2. Active Request Tracking Information
-Forms of active tracking information that could potentially be requested
-are as follows. (Note that no mechanisms currently exist for requesting
-such information.)
-
- ** the message has been queued for later delivery
-
- ** the message was delivered locally
-
- ** the message was delivered to another MTA,
-
- ** the message was delivered to a foreign MTA
-
- ** ask a different tracking server,
-
- ** I know but can't tell you,
-
- ** I don't know.
-
-5.4. Combining DSN and MDN Information with Message Tracking Informa-
-tion
-
- The information that would be retrieved by message tracking and the
-information that is returned for DSN and MDN requests all attempt to
-answer the question of "what happened to message XX"? The information
-provided by each is complementary in nature, but similar. A tracking
-user agent could use all three possible information sources to present
-a total view of the status of a message.
-
- Both DSN and MDN notifications utilize the formats defined by RFC
-1892 [RFC-REPORT]. This suggests that the information returned by mes-
-sage tracking solutions should also be similar.
-
-6. Security
-
- This is a security model for message identification and authentica-
-tion that could be deployed. (There may be others.)
-
- A Tracking User Agent must prove that they are permitted to request
-tracking information about a message. Every [RFC-822]-compliant message
-is supposed to contain a Message-Id header. One possible mechanism is
-for the originator to calculate a one-way hash A from the message ID +
-time stamp + a per-user secret. The user then calculates another one-
-way hash B to be the hash of A. The user includes B in the submitted
-
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-message, and retains A. Later, when the user makes a message tracking
-request to the messaging system or tracking entity, it submits A in the
-tracking request. The entity receiving the tracking request then uses A
-to calculate B, since it was already provided B, verifying that the
-requestor is authentic. In summary,
-
- A = H(message ID + time stamp + secret)
-
- B = H(A)
-
-Another possible mechanism for A is to ignore the message ID and time
-stamp and just use a one-way hash from a large (>128 bits) random
-number. B would be calculated as before. In summary,
-
- A = H(large-random-number)
-
- B = H(A)
-
-This is similar in technique to the methods used for One-Time Passwords
-[RFC-OTP]. The success of these techniques is dependent on the random-
-ness of the per-user secret or the large random number, which can be
-incredibly difficult in some environments.
-
- If the originator of a message were to delegate his or her tracking
-request to a third party by sending them A, this would be vulnerable to
-snooping over unencrypted sessions. The user can decide on a message-
-by-message basis if this risk is acceptable.
-
-7. References
-
-
- [RFC-822] Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet
- Text Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, UDEL, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-DELIVER-BY]
- Newman, D., "Deliver By SMTP Service Extension", draft-
- newman-deliver-02.txt, Innosoft, January 1999.
-
- [RFC-DSN] Moore, K., and G. Vaudreuil, "An Extensible Message For-
- mat for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 1894, Univer-
- sity of Tennessee, Octel Network Services, January 1996.
-
- [RFC-ESMTP-DSN]
- Moore, K., "SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status
- Notifications", RFC 1891, University of Tennessee, Janu-
- ary 1996.
-
- [RFC-KEYWORDS]
-
-
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- Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
- Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, Harvard University, March
- 1997.
-
- [RFC-MDN] Fajman, R., "An Extensible Message Format for Message
- Disposition Notifications", RFC 2298, National Institutes
- of Health, March 1998.
-
- [RFC-OTP] Haller, N., Metz, C., Nesser, P., Straw, M., "A One-Time
- Password System", RFC 2289, Bellcore, Kaman Sciences Cor-
- poration, Nesser & Nesser Consulting, Bellcore, February
- 1998.
-
- [RFC-REPORT]
- Vaudreuil, G., "The Multipart/Report Content Type for the
- Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages", RFC
- 1892, Octel Network Services, January 1996.
-
- [RFC-SMTP]Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", STD 10, RFC
- 821, USC/Information Sciences Institute, August 1982.
-
-8. Acknowledgements
-
- This document is the product of input from many people and many
-sources. It owes much to earlier work by Gordon Jones, Bruce Ernst and
-Greg Vaudreuil.
-
-9. Authors' Addresses
- Tony Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- USA
-
- Phone: +1 732 576-3207
- E-Mail: tony@att.com
-
- Ken Lin
- Lotus Development Corporation
- 640 Lee Road
- Wayne, PA 19087
-
- Phone: +1 610 251-3380
- E-Mail: ken_lin@lotus.com
-
-10. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
-
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-others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or
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-Internet Draft T. Hansen
-draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-02.txt AT&T Laboratories
-Valid for six months K. Lin
- Lotus Development Corporation
- July 14, 2000
-
-
-
- Message Tracking Model and Requirements
-
- <draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-02.txt>
-
- Authors' version: 1.12
-
- Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
-Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
-any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This memo and its companions are discussed on the MSGTRK working
-group mailing list, ietf-msgtrk@imc.org. To subscribe, send a message
-with the word "subscribe" in the body (on a line by itself) to the
-address ietf-msgtrk-request@imc.org. An archive of the mailing list may
-be found at http://www.ietf.org/archive/msgtrk.
-
-Copyright Notice
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
-Abstract
-
- Customers buying enterprise message systems often ask: Can I track
-the messages? Message tracking is the ability to find out the path that
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-a particular message has taken through a messaging system and the
-current routing status of that message. This document provides a model
-of message tracking that can be used for understanding the Internet-wide
-message infrastructure and to further enhance those capabilities to
-include message tracking, as well as requirements for proposed message
-tracking solutions.
-
-1. Problem Statement
-
- Consider sending a package through a package delivery company.
-Once you've sent a package, you would like to be able to find out if the
-package has been delivered or not, and if not, where that package
-currently is and what its status is. Note that the status of a package
-may not include whether it was delivered to its addressee, but just the
-destination. Many package carriers provide such services today, often
-via a web interface.
-
- Message tracking extends that capability to the Internet-wide mes-
-sage infrastructure, analogous to the service provided by package car-
-riers: the ability to quickly locate where a message (package) is, and
-to determine whether or not the message (package) has been delivered to
-its final destination. An Internet-standard approach will allow the
-development of message tracking applications that can operate in a
-multi-vendor messaging environment, and will encourage the operation of
-the function across administrative boundaries.
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
-document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
-2. Definitions
-The following terms are relevant to message tracking. The terms Track-
-ing User Agent and Tracking Server are new, while all other terms have
-been collected here from other sources.
-
- Originating Mail User Agent (MUA)
- The originating mail user agent is the software used to
- compose and originate a message. It is the software sit-
- ting on a person's desktop.
-
- Originating Mail Submission Agent (MSA)
- The Mail Submission Agent accepts a message from a User
- Agent, adds or modifies whatever headers are appropriate
- for the message's traversal through the Internet, and
- injects the message into the network via a Message
- Transfer Agent. An MSA is used, in lieu of the first MTA
- by MUA's that do not create fully-compliant Internet mes-
- sages, to submit messages into the SMTP delivery network.
-
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- Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- A Message Transfer Agent accepts a message and moves it
- forward towards its destination. That destination may be
- local or reached via another MTA. It may use a local
- queue to store the message before transferring it
- further. Any MTA may generate a Non-Delivery Notifica-
- tion.
-
- Intermediate Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- An Intermediate MTA is an MTA that accepts a message for
- transfer somewhere else.
-
- Final Message Transfer Agent (MTA)
- A Final MTA is an MTA that accepts a message for local
- delivery. It is the final place that a message is
- accepted. The final MTA is what sends any Delivery
- Status Notificatons (DSNs). (Intermediate MTA's may also
- send a DSN if it relays to a non-DSN aware MTA.)
-
- Foreign Message Transfer Agent
- A foreign MTA provides delivery of messages using other
- protocols than those specified for Internet mail, such as
- an X.400 mail system.
-
- Gateway Message Transfer Agent (GW-MTA)
- A gateway MTA accepts a message for transfer to a foreign
- MTA outside of the Internet protocol space.
-
- Local Delivery Agent (DA)
- The local Delivery Agent delivers the message to the
- local message store. (The MTA and DA are often combined
- into the same program.)
-
- Delivery Status Notification (DSN)
- A Delivery Status Notification [RFC-DSN] is produced by
- an MTA when a message is unsuccessfully delivered, either
- to its next hop or the final message store, or when it is
- successfully delivered, either to a foreign MTA, to a
- local delivery agent, or a non-DSN aware MTA. Positive
- notifications are only performed [RFC-ESMTP-DSN] when
- specifically requested.
-
- Non-Delivery Notification (NDN)
- A non-delivery notification is a special form of DSN
- indicating unsuccessful delivery.
-
- Message Disposition Notification (MDN)
- A Message Disposition Notification is used to report the
-
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- disposition of a message after it has been successfully
- delivered to a recipient.
-
- Tracking User Agent (TUA)
- A tracking user agent wants to find information on a mes-
- sage on the behalf of a user. It is the requestor or
- initiator of such a request. (The MUA and TUA could be
- combined into the same program.)
-
- Tracking Server
- A tracking server provides tracking information to a
- tracking client. It is the repository of the information
- about a message for the traversal through a particular
- MTA. (The tracking server and MTA may run on the same
- system.)
-
-3. Entities
-
- The entities involved in message tracking are: message user
-agents, message submission agents, message transfer agents, tracking
-user agents and tracking servers.
-
-4. Requirements
-
- These are requirements that any message tracking solution must be
-able to satisfy:
-
- The message tracking solution:
-
- ** MUST scale to the internet.
-
- ** MUST be easy to deploy.
-
- ** SHOULD maximize the reuse of existing, already deployed tech-
- nology and infrastructure.
-
- ** SHOULD extend existing protocols and not invent new ones.
-
- ** SHOULD have a low implementation cost. (This makes it easy to
- incorporate into existing products.)
-
- ** MUST restrict tracking of a message to the originator of the
- message (or a delegate).
-
- ** MUST be able to do authentication.
-
- ** MAY allow an originator to delegate this responsibility to a
- third party.
-
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- ** SHOULD have the property that they would allow per-message
- delegation of the tracking responsibility.
-
- ** MUST require a tracking user agent to prove that they are per-
- mitted to request the tracking information.
-
- ** MUST be able to uniquely identify messages.
-
- ** MUST require every message to have unique identification.
-
-5. Interaction Models
-
- There are several models by which tracking of messages can be
-enabled, by which messages can be tracked, and by which information can
-be requested and gathered.
-
-5.1. Tracking Enabling Models
-
- Either the envelope or message header must contain enough informa-
-tion to track a message and securely retrieve information about the mes-
-sage. Any message that does not have enough information to track it is
-by definition not trackable.
-
- If there is not enough information available in current standard
-envelopes or message headers, then the current standards will need to be
-extended. Either the MUA or MSA must determine the additional informa-
-tion and enable the tracking by adding the additional information to
-either the envelope or header.
-
- This leads to two tracking enabling models: passive enabling and
-active enabling.
-
-5.1.1. Passive Enabling Model
-The "passive enabling" model assumes that there is sufficient informa-
-tion available. No UA or MSA interaction occurs to turn tracking on; it
-is on by default.
-
-5.1.2. Active Enabling Model
-
- The "active enabling" model requires that the MUA and MSA exchange
-information when the message is submitted. This exchange indicates that
-logging of the message's traversal should be performed, as well as pro-
-viding enough additional information to allow the message to be tracked.
-This information will need to be passed on to subsequent MTAs as needed.
-
-5.2. Tracking Request Models
-There are several models by which tracking information may be requested.
-
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-5.2.1. Passive Request Model
-
- The "passive request" model requires active enabling to indicate
-that some form of tracking is to be performed. The tracking information
-can be sent back immediately (as a form of telemetry) or sent to a 3rd
-party for later retrieval.
-
-5.2.2. Passive Request Tracking Information
-
- Forms of passive tracking information that could potentially be
-requested are as follows. Note that mechanisms already exist for
-requesting the information marked with a (+). The references for such
-mechanisms are listed at the end of each such entry.
-
- ** send a DSN of a message arriving at an intermediate MTA
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being rejected while at an inter-
- mediate MTA [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message leaving an intermediate MTA and
- going to another MTA [RFC-DELIVER-BY]
-
- ** send a DSN of a message arriving at a final MTA
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being rejected while at a final
- MTA [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being delivered to a user's mes-
- sage store [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send a DSN of a message being delivered to a foreign MTA
- [RFC-DSN]
-
- ** (+) send an MDN of a message being read by an end user [RFC-
- MDN]
-
-5.3. Active Request Model
-
- The "active request" model requires an active query by a user's
-user agent to the MSA, intermediate MTAs and final MTA, or to a third
-party, to find the message's status as known by that MTA. Active
-request will work with either passive enabling or active enabling.
-
-5.3.1. Server Chaining vs. Server Referrals
-When a tracking server has been asked for tracking information, and the
-message has been passed on to another MTA of which this tracking server
-has no tracking knowledge, there are two modelling choices:
-
-
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- ** the first tracking server will contact the next tracking
- server to query for status and pass back the combined status
- (server chaining), or
-
- ** the first tracking server will return the address of the next
- MTA and the tracking client has the responsibility of contact-
- ing the next tracking server (server referrals).
-
-5.3.2. Active Request Tracking Information
-Forms of active tracking information that could potentially be requested
-are as follows. (Note that no mechanisms currently exist for requesting
-such information.)
-
- ** the message has been queued for later delivery
-
- ** the message was delivered locally
-
- ** the message was delivered to another MTA,
-
- ** the message was delivered to a foreign MTA
-
- ** ask a different tracking server,
-
- ** I know but can't tell you,
-
- ** I don't know.
-
-5.4. Combining DSN and MDN Information with Message Tracking Informa-
-tion
-
- The information that would be retrieved by message tracking and the
-information that is returned for DSN and MDN requests all attempt to
-answer the question of "what happened to message XX"? The information
-provided by each is complementary in nature, but similar. A tracking
-user agent could use all three possible information sources to present
-a total view of the status of a message.
-
- Both DSN and MDN notifications utilize the formats defined by RFC
-1892 [RFC-REPORT]. This suggests that the information returned by mes-
-sage tracking solutions should also be similar.
-
-6. Security
-
- This is a security model for message identification and authentica-
-tion that could be deployed. (There may be others.)
-
- A Tracking User Agent must prove that they are permitted to request
-tracking information about a message. Every [RFC-822]-compliant message
-
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-is supposed to contain a Message-Id header. One possible mechanism is
-for the originator to calculate a one-way hash A from the message ID +
-time stamp + a per-user secret. The user then calculates another one-
-way hash B to be the hash of A. The user includes B in the submitted
-message, and retains A. Later, when the user makes a message tracking
-request to the messaging system or tracking entity, it submits A in the
-tracking request. The entity receiving the tracking request then uses A
-to calculate B, since it was already provided B, verifying that the
-requestor is authentic. In summary,
-
- A = H(message ID + time stamp + secret)
-
- B = H(A)
-
-Another possible mechanism for A is to ignore the message ID and time
-stamp and just use a one-way hash from a large (>128 bits) random
-number. B would be calculated as before. In summary,
-
- A = H(large-random-number)
-
- B = H(A)
-
-This is similar in technique to the methods used for One-Time Passwords
-[RFC-OTP]. The success of these techniques is dependent on the random-
-ness of the per-user secret or the large random number, which can be
-incredibly difficult in some environments.
-
- If the originator of a message were to delegate his or her tracking
-request to a third party by sending them A, this would be vulnerable to
-snooping over unencrypted sessions. The user can decide on a message-
-by-message basis if this risk is acceptable.
-
-7. References
-
-
- [RFC-822] Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet
- Text Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, UDEL, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-DELIVER-BY]
- Newman, D., "Deliver By SMTP Service Extension", draft-
- newman-deliver-02.txt, Innosoft, January 1999.
-
- [RFC-DSN] Moore, K., and G. Vaudreuil, "An Extensible Message For-
- mat for Delivery Status Notifications", RFC 1894, Univer-
- sity of Tennessee, Octel Network Services, January 1996.
-
- [RFC-ESMTP-DSN]
- Moore, K., "SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status
-
-
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- Notifications", RFC 1891, University of Tennessee, Janu-
- ary 1996.
-
- [RFC-KEYWORDS]
- Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
- Requirement Levels", RFC 2119, Harvard University, March
- 1997.
-
- [RFC-MDN] Fajman, R., "An Extensible Message Format for Message
- Disposition Notifications", RFC 2298, National Institutes
- of Health, March 1998.
-
- [RFC-OTP] Haller, N., Metz, C., Nesser, P., Straw, M., "A One-Time
- Password System", RFC 2289, Bellcore, Kaman Sciences Cor-
- poration, Nesser & Nesser Consulting, Bellcore, February
- 1998.
-
- [RFC-REPORT]
- Vaudreuil, G., "The Multipart/Report Content Type for the
- Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages", RFC
- 1892, Octel Network Services, January 1996.
-
- [RFC-SMTP]Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", STD 10, RFC
- 821, USC/Information Sciences Institute, August 1982.
-
-8. Acknowledgements
-
- This document is the product of input from many people and many
-sources. It owes much to earlier work by Gordon Jones, Bruce Ernst and
-Greg Vaudreuil.
-
-9. Authors' Addresses
- Tony Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- USA
-
- Phone: +1 732 576-3207
- E-Mail: tony@att.com
-
- Ken Lin
- Lotus Development Corporation
- 640 Lee Road
- Wayne, PA 19087
-
- Phone: +1 610 251-3380
- E-Mail: ken_lin@lotus.com
-
-
-
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-10. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
-others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or
-assist in its implmentation may be prepared, copied, published and dis-
-tributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided
-that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all
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-references to the Internet Society or other Internet organisations,
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-which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Stan-
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-Valid for six months
- July 1, 2000
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- Message Tracking Query Protocol
-
- <draft-ietf-msgtrk-mtqp-00.txt>
-
- Authors' version: 1.3
-
- Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
-Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
-any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
-
- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This memo and its companions are discussed on the MSGTRK working
-group mailing list, ietf-msgtrk@imc.org. To subscribe, send a message
-with the word "subscribe" in the body (on a line by itself) to the
-address ietf-msgtrk-request@imc.org. An archive of the mailing list may
-be found at http://www.ietf.org/archive/msgtrk.
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-Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
-Abstract
-
- Customers buying enterprise message systems often ask: Can I track
-the messages? Message tracking is the ability to find out the path that
-a particular message has taken through a messaging system and the
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-current routing status of that message. This document describes the
-Message Tracking Query Protocol that is used in conjunction with exten-
-sions to the ESMTP protocol to provide a complete message tracking solu-
-tion for the Internet.
-
- NOTE: This is a straw proposal for the Message Tracking Query Pro-
-tocol.
-
-1. Introduction
-
- The Message Tracking Models and Requirements document [RFC-TRACK-
-MODEL] discusses the models that message tracking solutions could fol-
-low, along with requirements for a message tracking solution that can be
-used with the Internet-wide message infrastructure. This memo and its
-companions, [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] and [RFC-TRACK-TSN], describe a complete
-message tracking solution that satisfies those requirements. The memo
-[RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] defines an extension to the SMTP service that provides
-the information necessary to track messages. This memo defines a proto-
-col that can be used to query the status of messages that have been
-transmitted on the Internet via SMTP. The memo [RFC-TRACK-TSN]
-describes the message/tracking-status MIME media type that is used to
-report tracking status information. Using the model document's termi-
-nology, this solution uses active enabling and active requests with both
-request and chaining referrals.
-
-1.1. Terminology
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
-document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
- All syntax descriptions use the ABNF specified by [RFC-ABNF].
-Unless otherwise noted, any terminal nodes not defined here are defined
-in [RFC-ABNF].
-
-2. Basic Operation
-
- The Message Tracking Query Protocol (MTQP) is similar to many other
-line-oriented Internet protocols, such as [POP3] and [NNTP]. Initially,
-the server host starts the MTQP service by listening on TCP port ????.
-When a client wishes to make use of the service, it establishes a TCP
-connection with the server host. When the connection is established,
-the MTQP SERVER SENDS A GREETING. The client and MTQP server then
-exchange commands and responses (respectively) until the connection is
-closed or aborted.
-
- Commands in MTQP consist of a case-insensitive keyword, possibly
-followed by one or more parameters. All commands are terminated by a
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-CRLF pair. Keywords and parameters consist of printable ASCII charac-
-ters. Keywords and parameters are separated by whitespace (one or more
-space or tab characters). A command line is limited to 998 characters
-before the CRLF.
-
- Responses in MTQP consist of a status indicator that indicates suc-
-cess or failure, possibly followed by whitespace and additional informa-
-tion. Successful commands may also be followed by additional lines of
-data. All response lines are terminated by a CRLF pair and are limited
-to 998 characters before the CRLF. There are several status indicators:
-"+OK" indicates success; "+OK+" indicates a success followed by addi-
-tional lines of data, a multi-line success response; "-TEMP" indicates a
-temporary failure; "-ERR" indicates a permanent failure; and "-BAD"
-indicates a protocol error (such as for unrecognized commands).
-
- A multi-line success response may take one of two forms. If the
-end of the +OK+ line contains the character "{", a number, and the char-
-acter "}" before the CRLF, then the rest of the response consists of
-that number of characters.
-
- If the multi-line success response does not end with "{number}",
-each subsequent line is terminated by a CRLF pair and limited to 998
-characters before the CRLF. When all lines of the response have been
-sent, a final line is sent consisting of a single period (".", decimal
-code 046) and a CRLF pair. If any line of the multi-line response
-begins with a period, the line is "dot-stuffed" by prepending the period
-with a second period. When examining a multi-line response, the client
-checks to see if the line begins with a period. If so, and other octets
-other than CRLF follow, the first octet of the line (the period) is
-stripped away. If so, and if CRLF immediately follows the period, then
-the response from the MTQP server is ended and the line containing the
-".CRLF" is not considered part of the multi-line response.
-
- An MTQP server MUST respond to an unrecognized, unimplemented, or
-syntactically invalid command by responding with a negative -BAD status
-indicator. A server MUST respond to a command issued when the session
-is in an incorrect state by responding with a negative -ERR status indi-
-cator.
-
- An MTQP server MAY have an inactivity autologout timer. Such a
-timer MUST be of at least 10 minutes' duration. The receipt of any com-
-mand from the client during that interval should suffice to reset the
-autologout timer.
-
-3. Initialization
-
- Once the TCP connection has been opened by an MTQP client, the MTQP
-server issues an initial status response indicates its readiness. If
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-the status response is positive (+OK or +OK+), the client may proceed
-with other commands.
-
- If the server has any options enabled, they are listed as the
-multi-line response of the initial status response, one per line. An
-option specification consists of an identifier, optionally followed by
-option-specific parameters. An option specification may be continued
-onto additional lines by starting the continuation lines with white
-space.
-
- No options are defined in this document.
-
- Example #1 (no options):
- S: +OK MTQ server ready
-
- Example #2 (service temporarily unavailable):
- S: -TEMP Service down for admin, call back later
-
- Example #3 (service permanently unavailable):
- S: -ERR Service down
-
- Example #4 (alternative for no options):
- S: +OK+ MTQ server ready
- S: .
-
- Example #5 (options available):
- S: +OK+ MTQ server ready
- S: Option1 parameters
- S: Option2
- S: Option3 a very long
- S: list of parameters
- S: .
-
-4. TRACK Command
-
- Syntax:
- "TRACK" 1*WS tracking-id 1*WS authorization-cookie *WS CRLF
-
- tracking-id = TBD
-
- authorization-cookie = TBD
-
- When the client issues the TRACK command, the MTQP server retrieves
-tracking information about an email message. A successful response MUST
-be multi-line, consisting of a [MIME] mail message whose default
-content-type is message/tracking-status, as defined in [RFC-TRACK-TSN].
-This message contains the tracking information about the email message
-that used the given tracking-id. The tracking-id and authorization-
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-cookie are defined in [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP]. The authorization-cookie is
-expressed in hexadecimal.
-
- Example #6
- C: TRACK <tracking-id> 1234567890ABCDEF
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S: Content-Type: message/tracking-status
- S:
- S: ... details go here ...
- S: .
-
-5. NOOP Command
-
- Syntax:
- "NOOP" opt-text CRLF
-
- When the client issues the NOOP command, the MTQP server resets the
-inactivity autologout timer. The server MUST respond with a successful
-response (+OK or +OK+). All parameters to the NOOP command are ignored.
-
-6. QUIT Command
-
- Syntax:
- "QUIT" *WS CRLF
-
- When the client issues the QUIT command, the MTQP session ter-
-minates. The QUIT command has no parameters. The server MUST respond
-with a successful response. The client may close the session from its
-end immediately after issuing this command.
-
-7. Pipelining
-
- The MTQP client may elect to transmit groups of MTQP commands in
-batches without waiting for a response to each individual command. The
-MTQP server MUST process the commands in the order received. The fol-
-lowing two examples are identical:
-
- Example #7
- C: TRACK <tracking-id> 1234567890ABCDEF
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S:
- S: ... details go here ...
- S: .
- C: NOOP
- S: +OK Status okay
-
- Example #8
- C: TRACK <tracking-id> 1234567890ABCDEF
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- C: NOOP
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S:
- S: ... details go here ...
- S: .
- S: +OK Status okay
-
-8. URL Format
-
- The MTQP URL scheme is used to designate MTQP servers on Internet
-hosts accessible using the MTQP protocol. An MTQP URL takes one of the
-following forms:
-
- mtqp://<mserver>/track/<tracking-id>:<cookie>
- mtqp://<mserver>:<port>/track/<tracking-id>:<cookie>
-
- The first form is used to refer to an MTQP server on the standard
-port, while the second form specifies a non-standard port. Both of
-these forms specify that the TRACK command is to be issued using the
-given tracking id and authorization cookie. The path element "/track/"
-is case insensitive, but the tracking id may not be.
-
-8.1. MTQP URL Syntax
-
- This is an ABNF description of the MTQP URL. Terminal nodes not
-defined here are defined in either [RFC-URL] or [RFC-ABNF].
-
- mtqp-url = "mtqp://" net_loc "/track/" tracking-id ":" cookie
-
- tracking-id = TBD
-
- cookie = 16HEXDIG
-
-9. IANA Considerations
-
- TBD - registering extensions
-
-10. Security Considerations
-
- Security considerations discussed in [RFC-TRACK-MODEL] and [RFC-
-TRACK-ESMTP] are relevant.
-
-11. Protocol Syntax
-
- This is an ABNF description of MTQP.
- command-response = success-response / temp-response / error-response / bad-response
-
- temp-response = "-TEMP" opt-text CRLF
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- opt-text = [WSP *(VCHAR / WSP)]
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- error-response = "-ERR" opt-text CRLF
-
- bad-response = "-BAD" opt-text CRLF
-
- success-response = single-line-success / multi-line-success / multi-char-success
-
- single-line-success = "+OK" opt-text CRLF
-
- multi-char-success = "+OK+" opt-text "{" 1*DIGIT "}" *WSP CRLF *OCTET
- ; the number of characters specified by {number} ; must be
- sent
-
- multi-line-success = "+OK+" opt-text CRLF *dataline dotcrlf
-
- dataline = *998OCTET CRLF
-
- dotcrlf = "." CRLF
-
- option-list = *option-line
-
- option-line = rulename opt-text *[CRLF WSP opt-text] CRLF
-
-12. References
-
- [MIME] RFC 2045, N. Freed & N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet
-Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies",
-November 1996.
-
-
- [RFC-821] STD 10, RFC 821, J. Postel, "Simple Mail Transfer Proto-
-col", University of Southern California / Information Sciences Insti-
-tute, August 1982.
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- [RFC-822] STD 11, RFC 822, D. Crocker, "Standard for the Format of
-ARPA Internet Text Messages", University of Delaware, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-ABNF] RFC 2234, D. Crocker, Editor, and P. Overell, "Augmented
-BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", November 1997.
-
- [RFC-ESMTP] RFC 1651, J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud,
-and D. Crocker, "SMTP Service Extensions", Silicon Graphics, Inc., July
-1994.
-
- [RFC-KEYWORDS] RFC 2119, S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to
-Indicate Requirement Levels", March 1997.
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- [RFC-MD5] RFC 1321, R. Rivest, "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm",
-April 1992.
-
- [RFC-TRACK-MODEL] draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-02.txt, T. Hansen, K.
-Lin, "Message Tracking Models and Requirements", AT&T Laboratories,
-Lotus Development Corporation, ???? 2000.
-
- [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] draft-ietf-msgtrk-smtpext-*.txt, E. Allman, "SMTP
-Service Extension for Message Tracking", Sendmail, Inc., ???? 2000.
-
- [RFC-TRACK-TSN] draft-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat-00.txt, E. Allman, "The
-Message/Tracking-Status MIME Extension", Sendmail, Inc., ???? 2000.
-
- [RFC-URL] RFC 1808, R. Fielding, "Relative Uniform Resource Loca-
-tors", June 1995.
-
-13. Authors' Addresses
-
- Tony Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- USA
-
- Phone: +1.732.576.3207
- E-Mail: tony@att.com
-
-14. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
-others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or
-assist in its implmentation may be prepared, copied, published and dis-
-tributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided
-that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all
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-references to the Internet Society or other Internet organisations,
-except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in
-which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Stan-
-dards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into
-languages other than English.
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-revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
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- Authors' version: 1.5
-
- Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
-Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
-any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
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-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
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- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This memo and its companions are discussed on the MSGTRK working
-group mailing list, ietf-msgtrk@imc.org. To subscribe, send a message
-with the word "subscribe" in the body (on a line by itself) to the
-address ietf-msgtrk-request@imc.org. An archive of the mailing list may
-be found at http://www.ietf.org/archive/msgtrk.
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-Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
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-Abstract
-
- Customers buying enterprise message systems often ask: Can I track
-the messages? Message tracking is the ability to find out the path that
-a particular message has taken through a messaging system and the
-current routing status of that message. This document describes the
-
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-Message Tracking Query Protocol that is used in conjunction with exten-
-sions to the ESMTP protocol to provide a complete message tracking solu-
-tion for the Internet.
-
-1. Introduction
-
- The Message Tracking Models and Requirements document [RFC-TRACK-
-MODEL] discusses the models that message tracking solutions could fol-
-low, along with requirements for a message tracking solution that can be
-used with the Internet-wide message infrastructure. This memo and its
-companions, [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] and [RFC-TRACK-TSN], describe a complete
-message tracking solution that satisfies those requirements. The memo
-[RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] defines an extension to the SMTP service that provides
-the information necessary to track messages. This memo defines a proto-
-col that can be used to query the status of messages that have been
-transmitted on the Internet via SMTP. The memo [RFC-TRACK-TSN]
-describes the message/tracking-status MIME media type that is used to
-report tracking status information. Using the model document's termi-
-nology, this solution uses active enabling and active requests with both
-request and chaining referrals.
-
-1.1. Terminology
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
-document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
- All syntax descriptions use the ABNF specified by [RFC-ABNF]. Ter-
-minal nodes not defined elsewhere in this document are defined in [RFC-
-ABNF], [RFC-URI], [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] or [RFC-SMTPEXT].
-
-1.2. To Do
-
- provide information on finding an MTQP server
-
- provide TTL info, maximum times for keeping info
-
- determine the TCP port to use
-
-2. Basic Operation
-
- The Message Tracking Query Protocol (MTQP) is similar to many other
-line-oriented Internet protocols, such as [POP3] and [NNTP]. Initially,
-the server host starts the MTQP service by listening on TCP port TBD.
-When a client wishes to make use of the service, it establishes a TCP
-connection with the server host. When the connection is established,
-the MTQP server sends a greeting. The client and MTQP server then
-exchange commands and responses (respectively) until the connection is
-
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-2.1. Commands
-
- Commands in MTQP consist of a case-insensitive keyword, possibly
-followed by one or more parameters. All commands are terminated by a
-CRLF pair. Keywords and parameters consist of printable ASCII charac-
-ters. Keywords and parameters are separated by whitespace (one or more
-space or tab characters). A command line is limited to 998 characters
-before the CRLF.
-
-2.2. Responses
-
- Responses in MTQP consist of a status indicator that indicates suc-
-cess or failure. Successful commands may also be followed by additional
-lines of data. All response lines are terminated by a CRLF pair and are
-limited to 998 characters before the CRLF. There are several status
-indicators: "+OK" indicates success; "+OK+" indicates a success fol-
-lowed by additional lines of data, a multi-line success response; "-
-TEMP" indicates a temporary failure; "-ERR" indicates a permanent
-failure; and "-BAD" indicates a protocol error (such as for unrecognized
-commands).
-
- A status indicator MAY be followed by a series of machine-
-parseable, case-insensitive response information giving more data about
-the errors. These are separated from the status indicator and each
-other by a single slash character ("/", decimal code 47). Following
-that, there MAY be white space and a human-readable text message.
-
- In a multi-line success response, each subsequent line is ter-
-minated by a CRLF pair and limited to 998 characters before the CRLF.
-When all lines of the response have been sent, a final line is sent con-
-sisting of a single period (".", decimal code 046) and a CRLF pair. If
-any line of the multi-line response begins with a period, the line is
-"dot-stuffed" by prepending the period with a second period. When exa-
-mining a multi-line response, the client checks to see if the line
-begins with a period. If so, and octets other than CRLF follow, the
-first octet of the line (the period) is stripped away. If so, and if
-CRLF immediately follows the period, then the response from the MTQP
-server is ended and the line containing the ".CRLF" is not considered
-part of the multi-line response.
-
- An MTQP server MUST respond to an unrecognized, unimplemented, or
-syntactically invalid command by responding with a negative -BAD status
-indicator. A server MUST respond to a command issued when the session
-is in an incorrect state by responding with a negative -ERR status indi-
-cator.
-
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-2.3. Optional Timers
-
- An MTQP server MAY have an inactivity autologout timer. Such a
-timer MUST be of at least 10 minutes in duration. The receipt of any
-command from the client during that interval should suffice to reset the
-autologout timer. An MTQP server MAY limit the number of commands or
-total connection time to prevent denial of service attacks.
-
-3. Initialization and Option Response
-
- Once the TCP connection has been opened by an MTQP client, the MTQP
-server issues an initial status response indicates its readiness. If
-the status response is positive (+OK or +OK+), the client may proceed
-with other commands.
-
- The initial status response MUST include the response information
-"/MTQP". Negative responses MUST include a reason code as response
-information. The following reason codes are defined here; unrecognized
-reason codes added in the future may be treated as equivalent to
-"unknown".
- "/" "unavailable"
- "/" "admin"
- "/" "unknown"
- "/" "referral" "=" net_loc
-
- If the server has any options enabled, they are listed as the
-multi-line response of the initial status response, one per line. An
-option specification consists of an identifier, optionally followed by
-option-specific parameters. An option specification may be continued
-onto additional lines by starting the continuation lines with white
-space. The option identifier is case insensitive. Option identifiers
-beginning with the characters "vnd." are reserved for vendor use.
-
- One option specification is defined here:
-
- STARTTLS
-
-This capability MUST be listed if the optional STARTTLS command is sup-
-ported by the MTQP server. It has no parameters.
-
- Example #1 (no options):
- S: +OK/MTQP MTQP server ready
-
- Example #2 (service temporarily unavailable):
- S: -TEMP/MTQP/admin Service down for admin, call back later
-
- Example #3 (service permanently unavailable):
- S: -ERR/MTQP/unavailable Service down
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- Example #4 (alternative for no options):
- S: +OK+/MTQP MTQP server ready
- S: .
-
- Example #5 (options available):
- S: +OK+/MTQP MTQP server ready
- S: starttls
- S: Option2 with parameters
- S: Option3 with a very long
- S: list of parameters
- S: .
-
- Example #6 (Referred to another server):
- S: -ERR/MTQP/referral=server42.example.com:37
-
-4. TRACK Command
-
- Syntax:
- "TRACK" 1*WSP envid 1*WSP mtrk-secret CRLF
-
- mtrk-secret = base64
-
- Envid is defined in [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP]. Mtrk-secret is the secret S
-described in [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP], encoded using base64.
-
- When the client issues the TRACK command, the MTQP server retrieves
-tracking information about an email message. A successful response MUST
-be multi-line, consisting of a [MIME] body part. The default content-
-type for this MIME body part is message/tracking-status, as defined in
-[RFC-TRACK-TSN]. The response contains the tracking information about
-the email message that used the given tracking-id. Multiple responses
-would be reported using a multipart/mixed body part with
-message/tracking-status internals. The tracking-id and authorization-
-cookie are defined in [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP].
-
- TBD: Give details on different modes of responses and how they map
-into message/tracking-status
-
- Example #7 :
- C: TRACK <tracking-id> 1234567890ABCDEF
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S: Content-Type: message/tracking-status
- S:
- S: ... details go here when ...
- S: ... draft-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat becomes available ...
- S: .
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-5. COMMENT Command
-
- Syntax:
- "COMMENT" opt-text CRLF
-
- opt-text = [WSP *(VCHAR / WSP)]
-
- When the client issues the COMMENT command, the MTQP server MUST
-respond with a successful response (+OK or +OK+). All optional text
-provided with the COMMENT command are ignored.
-
-6. STARTTLS Command
-
- Syntax:
- "STARTTLS" CRLF
-
- TLS [TLS], more commonly known as SSL, is a popular mechanism for
-enhancing TCP communications with privacy and authentication. An MTQP
-server MAY support TLS. If an MTQP server supports TLS, it MUST include
-"STARTTLS" in the option specifications list on protocol startup.
-
- If the server returns a negative response, it MAY use one of the
-following response codes:
- "/" "unsupported"
- "/" "unavailable"
-
- After receiving a positive response to a STARTTLS command, the
-client MUST start the TLS negotiation before giving any other MTQP com-
-mands.
-
- If the MTQP client is using pipelining, the STARTTLS command must
-be the last command in a group.
-
-6.1. Processing After the STARTTLS Command
-
- After the TLS handshake has been completed, both parties MUST
-immediately decide whether or not to continue based on the authentica-
-tion and privacy achieved. The MTQP client and server may decide to move
-ahead even if the TLS negotiation ended with no authentication and/or no
-privacy because most MTQP services are performed with no authentication
-and no privacy, but some MTQP clients or servers may want to continue
-only if a particular level of authentication and/or privacy was
-achieved.
-
- If the MTQP client decides that the level of authentication or
-privacy is not high enough for it to continue, it SHOULD issue an MTQP
-QUIT command immediately after the TLS negotiation is complete. If the
-MTQP server decides that the level of authentication or privacy is not
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-high enough for it to continue, it SHOULD reply to every MTQP command
-from the client (other than a QUIT command) with a negative "-BAD"
-response and a response code of "/insecure".
-
-6.2. Result of the STARTTLS Command
-
- Upon completion of the TLS handshake, the MTQP protocol is reset to
-the initial state (the state in MTQP after a server starts up). The
-server MUST discard any knowledge obtained from the client prior to the
-TLS negotiation itself. The client MUST discard any knowledge obtained
-from the server, such as the list of MTQP options, which was not
-obtained from the TLS negotiation itself.
-
- At the end of the TLS handshake, the server acts as if the connec-
-tion had been initiated and responds with an initial status response
-and, optionally, a list of server options. The list of MTQP server
-options received after the TLS handshake MUST be different than the list
-returned before the TLS handshake. In particular, a server MUST NOT
-return the STARTTLS option in the list of server options after a TLS
-handshake has completed.
-
- Both the client and the server MUST know if there is a TLS session
-active. A client MUST NOT attempt to start a TLS session if a TLS ses-
-sion is already active.
-
-7. QUIT Command
-
- Syntax:
- "QUIT" CRLF
-
- When the client issues the QUIT command, the MTQP session ter-
-minates. The QUIT command has no parameters. The server MUST respond
-with a successful response. The client may close the session from its
-end immediately after issuing this command.
-
-8. Pipelining
-
- The MTQP client may elect to transmit groups of MTQP commands in
-batches without waiting for a response to each individual command. The
-MTQP server MUST process the commands in the order received.
-
- Specific commands may place further constraints on pipelining. For
-example, STARTTLS must be the last command in a batch of MTQP commands.
-
- The following two examples are identical:
-
- Example #8 :
- C: TRACK <tracking-id> 1234567890ABCDEF
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- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S:
- S: ... details go here ...
- S: .
- C: TRACK <tracking-id-2> ABCDEF1234567890
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S:
- S: ... details #2 go here ...
- S: .
-
- Example #9 :
- C: TRACK <tracking-id> 1234567890ABCDEF
- C: TRACK <tracking-id-2> ABCDEF1234567890
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S:
- S: ... details go here ...
- S: .
- S: +OK+ Tracking information follows
- S:
- S: ... details #2 go here ...
- S: .
-
-9. URL Format
-
- The MTQP URL scheme is used to designate MTQP servers on Internet
-hosts accessible using the MTQP protocol. An MTQP URL takes one of the
-following forms:
-
- mtqp://<mserver>/track/<envid>/<mtrk-secret>
- mtqp://<mserver>:<port>/track/<envid>/<mtrk-secret>
-
- The first form is used to refer to an MTQP server on the standard
-port, while the second form specifies a non-standard port. Both of
-these forms specify that the TRACK command is to be issued using the
-given tracking id and authorization cookie. The path element "/track/"
-is case insensitive, but the envid and mtrk-secret may not be.
-
-9.1. MTQP URL Syntax
-
- This is an ABNF description of the MTQP URL.
-
- mtqp-url = "mtqp://" net_loc "/track/" envid ":" mtrk-secret
-
-10. IANA Considerations
-
- The service name to be registered with the Internet Assigned Number
-Authority (IANA) is "MTQP".
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- This document requests that IANA maintain one new registry: MTQP
-options.
-
- Additional options for this protocol whose names do not begin with
-"vnd." MUST be defined in a standards track or IESG approved experimen-
-tal RFC. New MTQP options MUST include the following information:
-
- option identifier
- option parameters
- added commands
- standard commands affected
- specification reference
- discussion
-
- Additional options for this protocol whose names begin with "vnd."
-MUST be registered with IANA on a Firt Come First Served basis.
-
-11. Security Considerations
-
- Security considerations discussed in [RFC-TRACK-MODEL] and [RFC-
-TRACK-ESMTP] are relevant.
-
- The security of tracking information is dependent on the randomness
-of the secret chosen for each message and the level of exposure of that
-secret. If different secrets are used for each message, then the max-
-imum exposure from tracking any message will be that single message for
-the time that the tracking information is kept on any MTQP server. If
-this level of exposure is too much, TLS may be used to reduce the expo-
-sure further.
-
- It should be noted that message tracking is not an end-to-end
-mechanism. Thus, if an MTQP client/server pair decide to use TLS
-privacy, they are not securing tracking queries with any prior or suc-
-cessive MTQP servers.
-
- Both the STMP client and server must check the result of the TLS
-negotiation to see whether acceptable authentication or privacy was
-achieved. Ignoring this step completely invalidates using TLS for secu-
-rity. The decision about whether acceptable authentication or privacy
-was achieved is made locally, is implementation-dependant, and is beyond
-the scope of this document.
-
- The SMTP client and server should note carefully the result of the
-TLS negotiation. If the negotiation results in no privacy, or if it
-results in privacy using algorithms or key lengths that are deemed not
-strong enough, or if the authentication is not good enough for either
-party, the client may choose to end the MTQP session with an immediate
-QUIT command, or the server may choose to not accept any more MTQP
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-commands.
-
- A man-in-the-middle attack can be launched by deleting the
-"STARTTLS" option response from the server. This would cause the client
-not to try to start a TLS session. An MTQP client can protect against
-this attack by recording the fact that a particular MTQP server offers
-TLS during one session and generating an alarm if it does not appear in
-an option response for a later session.
-
- If TLS is not used, a tracking request is vulnerable to replay
-attacks, such that a snoop can later replay the same handshake again to
-potentially gain more information about a message's status.
-
- Before the TLS handshake has begun, any protocol interactions are
-performed in the clear and may be modified by an active attacker. For
-this reason, clients and servers MUST discard any knowledge obtained
-prior to the start of the TLS handshake upon completion of the TLS
-handshake.
-
-12. Protocol Syntax
-
- This is a collected ABNF description of the MTQP protocol.
- conversation = command-response *( client-command command-response )
-
- # client side
- client-command = track-command / starttls-command / quit-command / comment-command
-
- track-command = "TRACK" 1*WS envid 1*WS mtrk-secret CRLF
-
- mtrk-secret = base64
-
- starttls-command = "STARTTLS" CRLF
-
- quit-command = "QUIT" CRLF
-
- comment-command = "COMMENT" opt-text CRLF
-
- # server side
- command-response = success-response / temp-response / error-response / bad-response
-
- temp-response = "-TEMP" response-info opt-text CRLF
-
- opt-text = [WSP *(VCHAR / WSP)]
-
- error-response = "-ERR" response-info opt-text CRLF
-
- bad-response = "-BAD" response-info opt-text CRLF
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- success-response = single-line-success / multi-line-success
-
- single-line-success = "+OK" response-info opt-text CRLF
-
- multi-line-success = "+OK+" response-info opt-text CRLF *dataline dotcrlf
-
- dataline = *998OCTET CRLF
-
- dotcrlf = "." CRLF
-
- option-list = *option-line
-
- option-line = identifier opt-text *[CRLF WSP opt-text] CRLF
-
- identifier = (ALPHA / "_") *(ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "_")
-
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-13. Acknowledgements
-
- The description of STARTTLS is based on [RFC-SMTP-TLS].
-
-14. References
-
- [MIME] RFC 2045, N. Freed & N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet
-Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies",
-November 1996.
-
- [RFC-821] STD 10, RFC 821, J. Postel, "Simple Mail Transfer Proto-
-col", University of Southern California / Information Sciences Insti-
-tute, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-822] STD 11, RFC 822, D. Crocker, "Standard for the Format of
-ARPA Internet Text Messages", University of Delaware, August 1982.
-
- [RFC-ABNF] RFC 2234, D. Crocker, Editor, and P. Overell, "Augmented
-BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF", November 1997.
-
- [RFC-ESMTP] RFC 1651, J. Klensin, N. Freed, M. Rose, E. Stefferud,
-and D. Crocker, "SMTP Service Extensions", Silicon Graphics, Inc., July
-1994.
-
- [RFC-KEYWORDS] RFC 2119, S. Bradner, "Key words for use in RFCs to
-Indicate Requirement Levels", March 1997.
-
- [RFC-MD5] RFC 1321, R. Rivest, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
-and RSA Data Security, Inc., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", April
-1992.
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- [RFC-SMTPEXT] RFC 2554, J. Myers, Netscape Communications, "SMTP
-Service Extension for Authentication", March 1999.
-
- [RFC-SMTP-TLS] RFC2487, P. Hoffman, "SMTP Service Extension for
-Secure SMTP over TLS", Internet Mail Consortium, January 1999.
-
- [RFC-TRACK-ESMTP] draft-ietf-msgtrk-smtpext-00.txt, E. Allman, T.
-Hansen, "SMTP Service Extension for Message Tracking", Sendmail, Inc.,
-AT&T Laboratories, TBD 2000.
-
- [RFC-TRACK-MODEL] draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-03.txt, T. Hansen, "Mes-
-sage Tracking Models and Requirements", AT&T Laboratories, November
-2000.
-
- [RFC-TRACK-TSN] draft-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat-00.txt, E. Allman, "The
-Message/Tracking-Status MIME Extension", Sendmail, Inc., TBD 2000.
-
- [RFC-URI] RFC 2396, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, L. Masinter, "Uni-
-form Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax", August 1998.
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-15. Authors' Addresses
-
- Tony Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- USA
-
- Phone: +1.732.576.3207
- E-Mail: tony@att.com
-
-16. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
-others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or
-assist in its implmentation may be prepared, copied, published and dis-
-tributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided
-that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all
-such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not
-be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or
-references to the Internet Society or other Internet organisations,
-except as needed for the purpose of developing Internet standards in
-which case the procedures for copyrights defined in the Internet Stan-
-dards process must be followed, or as required to translate it into
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-Valid for six months T. Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- March 10, 2000
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- SMTP Service Extension
- for Message Tracking
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- <draft-ietf-msgtrk-protocol-00.txt>
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- Authors' version: 1.1
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- Status of this Memo
-
- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
- Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering
-Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other
-groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at
-any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
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-http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt.
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- The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at
-http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html.
-
- This memo and its companions are discussed on the MSGTRK working
-group mailing list, ietf-msgtrk[-request]@imc.org. An archive of the
-mailing list may be found at http://www.ietf.org/archive/msgtrk.
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-Copyright Notice
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- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
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-Abstract
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- Customers buying enterprise message systems often ask: Can I track
-the messages? Message tracking is the ability to find out the path that
-a particular message has taken through a messaging system and the
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-current routing status of that message. This document provides exten-
-sions to the ESMTP protocol to enhance its capabilities to include mes-
-sage tracking.
-
-1. Introduction
-
- The Message Tracking Models and Requirements document [RFC-TRACK-
-MODEL] discusses the models that message tracking solutions could fol-
-low, along with requirements for a message tracking solution that can be
-used with the Internet-wide message infrastructure. This memo defines
-an extension to the SMTP service that provides a message tracking solu-
-tion that satisfies those requirements. Using the model document's ter-
-minology, it uses active enabling and active requests with request
-referrals.
-
-....
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-This document is very drafty; its purpose is to promote discussion.
-Sections that are obviously in need of filling out have comments begin-
-ning with "--".
-
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-1.1. Terminology
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
-"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
-document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
-
-
-2. Framework for the Message Tracking Service Extension
-
- The Message Trackng extension to SMTP is laid out as follows:
-
- ** the name of the SMTP service defined here is "Message Track-
- ing";
-
- ** the EHLO keyword value associated with the extension is
- "TRACK";
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- ** the TRACK keyword has no parameters;
-
- ** the TRACKID parameter is added to the MAIL FROM command;
-
- ** a new SMTP verb, "MTRK", is defined.
-
- The rest of this memo defines how support for the extension effects
- the behavior of a message transfer agent.
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-3. Message Tracking Enabling
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- An SMTP client wishing to request message tracking support for a
-message may issue the EHLO command to start an SMTP session, to deter-
-mine if the server supports any of several service extensions. If the
-server responds with code 250 to the EHLO command, and the response
-includes the EHLO keyword TRACK, then the Message Tracking extension (as
-described in this memo) is supported. In general, an ESMTP server which
-implements this service extension will propagate message tracking infor-
-mation when relaying mail to other SMTP-based MTAs that also support
-this extension, and make a "best effort" to record when messages are
-passed into other environments.
-
-4. Additional Parameter for the MAIL FROM Command
-
- The extended MAIL FROM command is issued by a client when it wishes
-to request that a server maintain tracking information for the message.
-The extended MAIL FROM command is identical to the MAIL commands defined
-in [RFC-821], except that the additional parameter may appear after the
-recipient address. The general syntax for extended SMTP commands is
-defined in [RFC-ESMTP].
-
-4.1. The TRACKID parameter of the ESMTP MAIL FROM Command
-
- The TRACKID esmtp-keyword on the extended MAIL FROM command speci-
-fies whether or not the message should be tracked by the server. If the
-TRACKID esmtp-keyword is used, it MUST have an associated esmtp-value,
-which is constructed as described next.
-
-4.2. Creating the TRACKID Parameter
-
- The TRACKID parameter consists of two parts: a per-message authen-
-tication string, the Auth String, and a per-message tracking identifica-
-tion string, the Tracking ID.
-
-4.2.1. Tracking ID
-
- A key requirement of message tracking is the ability to uniquely
-identify a message with a globally and temporally unique signature. The
-Message-Id: header is required by [RFC-822] to identify a message, and
-is usually required to be globally and temporally unique. So it is
-almost sufficient for tracking identification. However, a Message ID
-will be reused under certain circumstances, such as when a message is
-resent, and such messages must be able to be tracked separately from the
-original message. The Tracking ID is REQUIRED to be the same value as
-used for the Message ID, without the angle brackets, and augmented by a
-colon ":" and a generational counter. The generational counter will be
-an unsigned integer value that SHOULD start at the value of 0. For
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-example, if the value of the Message-ID: header is
-"<123456.89012391@domain.example>", then the value of the tracking ID
-will be "123456.89012391@domain.example:0". If a message is ever resent
-or retransmitted for any other reason by an end-user client, then the
-generational counter MUST be incremented by one. (The generational
-counter MAY additionally be incremented by a small (<10) random number.)
-
-4.2.2. Secret Value
-
- For messages to be tracked, the mail user agent must use a secret
-value. This secret value MAY be a per-message secret, such as a 128-bit
-(16-byte) random number.
-
-4.2.3. Stored Authentication Value
-
- The value of the Tracking ID, T, is concatentated with the secret
-value, S, and passed through the [RFC-MD5] one-way hash function, to
-create the Stored Authentication Value, A.
-
- A = H(T + S)
-
-
-4.2.4. Transmitted Authentication String
-
- The Transitted Authentication String, B, is created by passing the
-Stored Authentication Value, A, through the MD5 one-way hash function,
-producing a 16-byte value. This value is then expressed as a series of
-32 hexadecimal digits, either lower- or upper-case, transmitted in
-internet byte order (low-endian ???? ) [RFC-????].
-
- B = hex(H(A))
-
-4.2.5. The TRACKID Parameter
-
- The TRACKID parameter, P, is created from the transmitted authenti-
-cation string, B, a colon ":", and the tracking ID, T.
-
- P = B + ":" + T
-
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-5. Message Tracking Requests
-
- The MTRK command is issued by the client host when it wishes to
-determine the current status of a message previously sent to that server
-host. The syntax of this command is as follows:
-
- MTRK <stored-authentication-value>:<tracking-id><CR><LF>
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-<tracking-id> is the tracking ID, T, of a message previously sent to
-this server. The <stored-authentication-value> is the Stored Authenti-
-cation Value A (as calculated above) for that message. The <stored-
-authentication-value> is expressed as a series of 32 hexadecimal digits,
-either lower- or upper-case, transmitted in internet byte order [RFC-
-????]. This command may be issued at any time once a session is esta-
-blished, as long as there is not a transaction occurring. Thus, this
-command is illegal between a MAIL FROM: command and the end of the DATA
-commands and responses.
-
-things to add:
--- data to be returned
--- states to be returned
--- format to be returned
--- responses to the verb, 250, 4xx, 5xx
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-other things to consider:
--- firewalls? (treat as gateway MTAs and let them do chaining?)
--- affect on SUBMIT? can we ask MSA to return the A and B hash?
--- use message-id directly and require message-id to be in first 1k of
-message?
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-6. Examples
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- -- examples go here
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-6.1. Message Tracking Enabling
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- S: 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP server ready
- C: EHLO example.example.com
- S: 250-smtp.example.com
- S: 250 TRACK
- C: MAIL FROM:<user@example.com>
- TRACKID=1234567890123456789012:12345.54321@example.com:0
- S: 250 <user@example.com> sender ok
- C: RCPT TO:<user2@example.com>
- S: 25o <user2@example.com> recipient ok
- C: DATA
- S: 354 okay, send message
- C: Message-Id: <12345.54321@example.com>
- C: (rest of message here)
- C: .
- S: 250 message accepted
- C: QUIT
- S: 221 goodbye
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- S: 220 smtp.example.com ESMTP server ready
- C: EHLO example.example.com
- S: 250-smtp.example.com
- S: 250 TRACK
- C: MTRK 1234567890123456789012:12345.54321@example.com:0
- S: -- response to be determined
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-7. Security Considerations
-
- things to add:
--- text about no more than a single message can be lost
--- man in the middle attack
--- see RFC 1894 for security considerations on DSNs and RFC 2298 on MDNs
-
--- We probably cannot get away with the following statement:
-
-This RFC does not discuss security issues and is not believed to raise
-any security issues not already endemic in electronic mail and present
-in fully conforming implementations of [RFC821], or otherwise made pos-
-sible by [MIME].
-
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-8. References
-
- [RFC-821] Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", STD 10, RFC
-821, University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute,
-August 1982.
-
-[RFC-822] Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
-Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, University of Delaware, August 1982.
-
-[RFC-ESMTP] Klensin, J., Freed, N., Rose, M., Stefferud, E., and D.
-Crocker, "SMTP Service Extensions", RFC 1651, MCI, Innosoft, Dover Beach
-Consulting, Inc., Network Management Associates, Inc., Silicon Graphics,
-Inc., July 1994.
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-[RFC-MD5] Rivest, R., "The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm", RFC 1321,
-April 1992.
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-[RFC-MODEL] Hansen, T., "Message Tracking Models and Requirements", RFC
-????, AT&T Laboratories, ???? 2000.
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-[RFC-????] something on internet byte order
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-9. Authors' Addresses
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- Eric Allman
- Sendmail, Inc.
- street address
- city, state zip
-
- Phone: +1
- E-Mail: eric@sendmail.com
-
- Tony Hansen
- AT&T Laboratories
- Lincroft, NJ 07738
- USA
-
- Phone: +1 732 576-3207
- E-Mail: tony@att.com
-
-10. Full Copyright Statement
-
- Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
-
- This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
-others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it or
-assist in its implmentation may be prepared, copied, published and dis-
-tributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any kind, provided
-that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all
-such copies and derivative works. However, this document itself may not
-be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or
-references to the Internet Society or other Internet organisations,
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-TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT
-NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL
-NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR
-FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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-11. Appendix A -- Sample Code
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- For the sake of illustration, we provide the following sample C
-code for the creation of the saved and transmitted authentication
-strings. The code is based on MD5 code as described in [RFC-MD5]. The
-input is a secret and transaction ID, the output is two 33-byte strings
-containing the values of the two authentication strings, encoded as hex
-digits, and NUL-terminated.
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--- I have not yet compiled this code or verified that it does indeed
-generate network byte order.
- /*
- ** Function: trackauth
- */
- #include <md5.h>
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- void
- trackauth(
- /* input parameters ... */
- unsigned char* secret; /* pointer to secret */
- int secret_len; /* length of secret */
- unsigned char* transaction_id; /* pointer to transaction ID */
- int transaction_id_len; /* length of transaction ID */
- /* output parameters ... */
- unsigned char saved_auth_str[33]; /* A: saved authentication string */
- unsigned char trans_auth_str[33]; /* B: transmitted auth. string */
- )
- {
- MD5_CTX context; /* MD5 engine */
- unsigned char outbuf[16]; /* where to store the context */
- register int i, j; /* counters */
- static char hexdigits[] = "0123456789abcdef";
-
- MD5Init(&context);
- MD5Update(&context, secret, secret_len);
- MD5Update(&context, transaction_id, transaction_id_len);
- MD5Final(outbuf, &context);
- for (i = 0, j = 0; i < 16; i++)
- {
- saved_auth_str[j++] = hexdigits[outbuf[i] & 0xF];
- saved_auth_str[j++] = hexdigits[(outbuf[i] >> 4) & 0xF];
- }
- saved_auth_str[j] = '\0';
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- MD5Init(&context);
- MD5Update(&context, saved_auth_str, 16);
- MD5Final(outbuf, &context);
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- trans_auth_str[j++] = hexdigits[outbuf[i] & 0xF];
- trans_auth_str[j++] = hexdigits[(outbuf[i] >> 4) & 0xF];
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-Valid for six months T. Hansen
-Updates: RFC 1891 AT&T Laboratories
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-Status of This Memo
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- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance
-with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are
-working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
-areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also dis-
-tribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
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- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents
-at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
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- This document is a submission by the MSGTRK Working Group of the
-Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Comments should be submitted
-to the msgtrk@imc.org mailing list. An archive of the mailing list
-may be found at
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-1. Abstract
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- This memo defines an extension to the SMTP service whereby a
- client may mark a message for future tracking.
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-2. Other Documents and Conformance
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- The model used for Message Tracking is described in [DRAFT-
- MTRK-MODEL].
-
- Doing a Message Tracking query is intended as a "last resort"
- mechanism. Normally, Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) [RFC-
- DSN-SMTP] and Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) [RFC-MDN]
- would provide the primary delivery status. Only if the message is
- not received, or there is no response from either of these mecha-
- nisms should a Message Tracking query be issued.
-
- The definition of the base64 token is imported from section
- 6.8 of [RFC-MIME].
-
- Syntax notation in this document conforms to [RFC-ABNF].
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL
- NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL"
- in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119
- [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
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-3. SMTP Extension Overview
-
- The Message Tracking SMTP service extension uses the SMTP ser-
- vice extension mechanism described in [RFC-ESMTP]. The following
- service extension is hereby defined:
-
- (1) The name of the SMTP service extension is "Message Track-
- ing".
-
- (2) The EHLO keyword value associated with this extension is
- "MTRK".
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- (3) No parameters are allowed with this EHLO keyword value.
- Future documents may extend this specification by specifying
- options.
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- (4) One optional parameter using the keyword "MTRK" is added to
- the MAIL FROM command. In addition, the ENVID and ORCPT
- parameters (as defined in RFC 1891 sections 5.4 and 5.2
- respectively) MUST be supported, with extensions as
- described below.
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- (5) The maximum length of a MAIL FROM command line is increased
- by 40 characters by the possible addition of the MTRK key-
- word and value. Note that a further extension of 614 char-
- acters for the ORCPT and ENVID parameters is required by
- RFC-DSN-EXT].
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- The extended MAIL FROM command is issued by an SMTP client
- when it wishes to inform an SMTP server that message tracking
- information should be retained for future querying. The extended
- MAIL FROM command is identical to the MAIL FROM command as defined
- in [RFC-SMTP], except that MTRK, ORCPT, and ENVID parameters appear
- after the address.
-
- 4.1. The MTRK parameter to the ESMTP MAIL command
-
- Any sender wishing to track a message must first tag that
- message as trackable by creating two values A and B:
-
- A = some-large-random-number
- B = SHA1(A)
-
- The large random number A is calculated on a host-dependent
- basis as described in [DRAFT-MTRK-MODEL]. See also [RFC-RANDOM]
- for a discussion of choosing good random numbers. This random
- number MUST be at least 128 bits but MUST NOT be more than 1024
- bits.
-
- The 128-bit hash B of A is then computed using the SHA-1
- algorithm as described in [NIST-SHA1].
-
- The sender then base64 encodes value B and passes that
- value as the mtrk-certifier on the MAIL FROM command:
-
- mtrk-parameter = "MTRK=" mtrk-certifier [ ":" mtrk-timeout ]
- mtrk-certifier = base64 ; authenticator
- mtrk-timeout = 1*9digit; seconds until timeout
-
-
- A is stored in the originator's tracking database to vali-
- date future tracking requests as described in [DRAFT-MTRK-MTQP].
- B is stored in tracking tracking databases of compliant MTAs and
- used to authenticate future tracking requests.
-
- The mtrk-timeout field indicates the number of seconds that
- the client requests that this tracking information be retained
- on intermediate servers, as measured from the initial receipt of
- the message at that server. Servers MAY ignore this value if it
- violates local policy. In particular, servers MAY silently
- enforce an upper limit to how long they will retain tracking
- data; this limit MUST be at least one day.
-
- If no mtrk-timeout field is specified then the server
- should use a local default. This default SHOULD be 8-10 days
- and MUST be at least one day. Notwithstanding this clause, the
- information MUST NOT be expired while the message remains in the
- queue for this server: that is, an MTQP server MUST NOT deny
- knowledge of a message while that same message sits in the MTA
- queue.
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- If the message is relayed to another compliant SMTP server,
- the MTA acting as the client SHOULD pass an mtrk-timeout field
- equal to the remaining life of that message tracking informa-
- tion. Specifically, the tracking timeout is decremented by the
- number of seconds the message has lingered at this MTA and then
- passed to the next MTA. If the decremented tracking timeout is
- less than or equal to zero, the entire MTRK parameter MUST NOT
- be passed to the next MTA; essentially, the entire tracking path
- is considered to be lost at that point.
-
- See [RFC-DELIVERYBY] section 4 for an explanation of why a
- timeout is used instead of an absolute time.
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- 4.2. Use of ENVID
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- To function properly, Message Tracking requires that each
- message have a unique identifier that is never reused by any
- other message. For that purpose, if the MTRK parameter is
- given, an ENVID parameter MUST be included, and the syntax of
- ENVID from RFC 1891 section 5.4 is extended as follows:
-
- envid-parameter = "ENVID=" unique-envid
- unique-envid = xtext "@" fqhn
- fqhn = xtext
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- Any retransmissions of this message MUST assign a new ENVID. In
- this context, "retransmission" includes forwarding or resending
- a message.
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- 4.3. Forwarding Tracking Certifiers
-
- MTAs SHOULD forward unexpired tracking certifiers to com-
- pliant mailers as the mail is transferred during regular hop-to-
- hop transfers. If the "downstream" MTA is not MTRK-compliant,
- then the MTRK= parameter MUST be deleted. If the downstream MTA
- is DSN-compliant, then the ENVID and ORCPT parameters MUST NOT
- be deleted.
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- If aliasing, forwarding, or other redirection of messages
- to a single recipient occurs, then the MTA SHOULD treat this as
- an ordinary hop-to-hop transfer and forward the MTRK=, ENVID=,
- and ORCPT= values; these values MUST NOT be modified.
-
- MTAs MUST NOT copy MTRK certifiers when relaying a message
- to multiple recipients. An MTA MAY designate one recipient in a
- multi-recipient alias as the "primary" recipient to which track-
- ing requests shall be forwarded; other addresses SHALL NOT
- receive tracking certifiers. MTAs MUST NOT forward MTRK certi-
- fiers when doing mailing list expansion.
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- An attacker could attempt to flood the database of a server
- by submitting large numbers of small, tracked messages. In this
- case, a site may elect to lower its maximum retention period
- retroactively.
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- 5.2. Confidentiality
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- The mtrk-authenticator value (``A'') must be hard to pre-
- dict and not reused.
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- The originating client must take reasonable precautions to
- protect the secret. For example, if the secret is stored in a
- message store (e.g., a "Sent" folder), the client must make sure
- the secret isn't accessible by attackers, particularly on a
- shared store.
-
- MTAs SHOULD take precautions to make certain that message
- tracking cannot be used to explore internal topologies of net-
- works.
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-6. References
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- [DRAFT-MTRK-MODEL]
- T. Hansen, ``Message Tracking Model and Requirements.''
- draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-03.txt. November 2000.
-
- [DRAFT-MTRK-MTQP]
- T. Hansen, ``Message Tracking Query Protocol.'' draft-ietf-
- msgtrk-mtqp-01.txt. November 2000.
-
- [RFC-ABNF]
- Crocker, D., Editor, and P. Overell, ``Augmented BNF for Syn-
- tax Specifications: ABNF'', RFC 2234, November 1997.
-
- [RFC-DELIVERYBY]
- D. Newman, ``Deliver By SMTP Service Extension.'' RFC 2852.
- June 2000.
-
- [RFC-DSN-REPT]
- G. Vaudreuil, ``The Multipart/Report Content Type for the
- Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages.'' RFC 1892.
- January 1996.
-
- [RFC-DSN-SMTP]
- K. Moore, ``SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifi-
- cations.'' RFC 1891. January 1996.
-
- [RFC-DSN-STAT]
- K. Moore and G. Vaudreuil, ``An Extensible Message Format for
- Delivery Status Notifications.'' RFC 1894. January 1996.
-
- [RFC-EMSSC]
- G. Vaudreuil, ``Enhanced Mail System Status Codes.'' RFC
- 1893. January 1996.
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- Rose, M., Stefferud, E., Crocker, D., Klensin, J. and N.
- Freed, ``SMTP Service Extensions.'' STD 10, RFC 1869. Novem-
- ber 1995.
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- [RFC-KEYWORDS]
- S. Bradner, ``Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Require-
- ment Levels.'' RFC 2119. March 1997.
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- [RFC-MDN]
- R. Fajman, ``An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposi-
- tion Notifications.'' RFC 2298. March 1998.
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- [RFC-MIME]
- N. Freed and N. Borenstein, ``Multipurpose Internet Mail
- Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bod-
- ies.'' RFC 2045. November 1996.
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- [RFC-MSGFMT]
- D. Crocker, ``Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
- Messages.'' RFC 822. August 1982.
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- [RFC-RANDOM]
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- [RFC-RELATED]
- E. Levinson, ``The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type.'' RFC
- 2387. August 1998.
-
- [NIST-SHA1]
- NIST FIPS PUB 180-1, ``Secure Hash Standard.'' National
- Institute of Standards and Technology, U.S. Department of Com-
- merce. May 1994. DRAFT.
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- [RFC-SMTP]
- J. Postel, ``Simple Mail Transport Protocol.'' RFC 821.
- August 1982.
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-7. Authors' Addresses
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- Eric Allman
- Sendmail, Inc.
- 6603 Shellmound
- Emeryville, CA 94608
- U.S.A.
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- E-Mail: eric@Sendmail.COM
- Phone: +1 510 594 5501
- Fax: +1 510 594 5411
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-Valid for six months December 14, 2000
-Updates: RFC 1893
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-Status of This Memo
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- This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance
-with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are
-working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its
-areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also dis-
-tribute working documents as Internet-Drafts.
-
- Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents
-at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
-material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
-
- The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at:
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- http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt
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-The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at:
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- http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html
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- This document is a submission by the MSGTRK Working Group of the
-Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Comments should be submitted
-to the msgtrk@imc.org mailing list. An archive of the mailing list
-may be found at
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- http://www.ietf.org/archive/msgtrk
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- Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
-
-1. Abstract
-
- Message Tracking is expected to be used to determine the sta-
- tus of undelivered e-mail upon request. Tracking is used in con-
- junction with Delivery Status Notifications [RFC-DSN-SMTP] and Mes-
- sage Disposition Notifications [RFC-MDN]; generally, a message
- tracking request will be issued only when a DSN or MDN has not been
- received within a reasonable timeout period.
-
- This memo defines a MIME [RFC-MIME] content-type for message
- tracking status in the same spirit as RFC 1894, ``An Extensible
- Message Format for Delivery Status Notifications'' [RFC-DSN-STAT].
-
-Internet Draft Message/Tracking-Status December 14, 2000
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- It is to be issued upon a request as described in ``Message Track-
- ing Query Protocol'' [DRAFT-MTRK-MTQP]. This memo defines only the
- format of the status information. An extension to SMTP [RFC-ESMTP]
- to label messages for further tracking and request tracking status
- is defined in a separate memo [DRAFT-MTRK-SMTPEXT].
-
-2. Other Documents and Conformance
-
- The model used for Message Tracking is described in [DRAFT-
- MTRK-MODEL].
-
- Message tracking is intended for use as a "last resort" mecha-
- nism. Normally, Delivery Status Notifications (DSNs) [RFC-DSN-
- SMTP] and Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) [RFC-MDN] would
- provide the primary delivery status. Only if no response from
- either of these mechanisms would Message Tracking be used.
-
- This document is based on [RFC-DSN-STAT]. Sections 1.3 (Ter-
- minology), 2.1.1 (General conventions for DSN fields), 2.1.2
- ("*-type" subfields), and 2.1.3 (Lexical tokens imported from RFC
- 822) of [RFC-DSN-STAT] are included into this document by refer-
- ence. Other sections are further incorporated as described herein.
-
- Syntax notation in this document conforms to [RFC-ABNF].
-
- The following lexical tokens, defined in [RFC-MSGFMT], are
- used in the ABNF grammar for MTSNs: atom, CHAR, comment, CR, CRLF,
- DIGIT, LF, linear-white-space, SPACE, text. The date-time lexical
- token is defined in [RFC-HOSTREQ].
-
- The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL
- NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL"
- in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119
- [RFC-KEYWORDS].
-
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-3. Format of a Message Tracking Status Notification
-
- A Message Tracking Status Notification (MTSN) is intended to
- be returned as the body of a Message Tracking request [DRAFT-MTRK-
- MTQP]. The actual body MUST be a multipart/related [RFC-RELATED]
- with type of "tracking-status"; each subpart MUST be type "mes-
- sage/tracking-status" as described herein.
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- 3.1. The message/tracking-status content-type
-
- The message/tracking-status content-type is defined as fol-
- lows:
-
- MIME type name: message
- MIME subtype name: tracking-status
- Optional parameters: none
- Encoding considerations: "7bit" encoding is sufficient and
- MUST be used to maintain readability
- when viewed by non-MIME mail readers.
- Security considerations: discussed in section 4 of this memo.
-
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- The body of a message/tracking-status is modeled after
- [RFC-DSN-STAT]. That body consists of one or more "fields" for-
- matted to according to the ABNF of RFC 822 headers "fields" (see
- [RFC-MSGFMT]). The per-message fields appear first, followed by
- a blank line. Following the per-message fields are one or more
- groups of per-recipient fields. Each group of per-recipient
- fields is preceded by a blank line. Formally, the syntax of the
- message/tracking-status content is as follows:
-
- tracking-status-content =
- per-message-fields 1*( CRLF per-recipient-fields )
-
- The per-message fields are described in section 3.2. The per-
- recipient fields are described in section 3.3.
-
- 3.1.1. General conventions for MTSN fields
-
- Section 2.1.1 (General conventions for DSN fields) of
- [RFC-DSN-STAT] is included herein by reference. Notably, the
- definition of xtext is identical to that of that document.
-
- 3.1.2. *-type subfields
-
- Section 2.1.2 (*-type subfields) of [RFC-DSN-STAT] is
- included herein by reference. Notably, the definitions of
- address-type, diagnostic-type, and MTA-name type are identi-
- cal to that of RFC 1894.
-
-
- 3.2. Per-Message MTSN Fields
-
- Some fields of an MTSN apply to all of the addresses in a
- single envelope. These fields may appear at most once in any
- MTSN. These fields are used to correlate the MTSN with the
- original message transaction and to provide additional informa-
- tion which may be useful to gateways.
-
- per-message-fields =
- original-envelope-id-field CRLF
- reporting-mta-field CRLF
- arrival-date CRLF
- *( extension-field CRLF )
-
-
- 3.2.1. The Original-Envelope-Id field
-
- The optional Original-Envelope-Id field is defined as in
- section 2.2.1 of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED.
-
- 3.2.2. The Reporting-MTA field
-
- The Reporting-MTA field is defined as in section 2.2.2
- of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED.
-
-
-
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- 3.2.3. The Arrival-Date field
-
- The Arrival-Date field is defined as in section 2.2.5 of
- [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED.
-
-
- 3.3. Per-Recipient MTSN fields
-
- An MTSN contains information about attempts to deliver a
- message to one or more recipients. The delivery information for
- any particular recipient is contained in a group of contiguous
- per-recipient fields. Each group of per-recipient fields is
- preceded by a blank line.
-
- The syntax for the group of per-recipient fields is as fol-
- lows:
-
- per-recipient-fields =
- original-recipient-field CRLF
- final-recipient-field CRLF
- action-field CRLF
- status-field CRLF
- [ remote-mta-field CRLF ]
- [ last-attempt-date-field CRLF ]
- [ will-retry-until-field CRLF ]
- *( extension-field CRLF )
-
-
- 3.3.1. Original-Recipient field
-
- The optional Original-Recipient field is defined as in
- section 2.3.1 of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED.
-
- 3.3.2. Final-Recipient field
-
- The required Final-Recipient field is defined as in sec-
- tion 2.3.2 of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED.
-
- 3.3.3. Action field
-
- The required Action field indicates the action performed
- by the Reporting-MTA as a result of its attempt to delivery
- the message to this recipient address. This field MUST be
- present for each recipient named in the MTSN. The syntax is
- as defined in section 2.3.3 of RFC 1894. This field is
- REQUIRED.
-
- Valid actions are:
-
- failed The message could not be delivered. If DSNs
- have been enabled, a "failed" DSN should already
- have been returned.
-
- delayed The message is currently waiting in the MTA
- queue for future delivery. Essentially, this
- action means "the message is located, and it is
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- here."
-
- delivered The message has been successfully delivered to
- the final recipient. This includes "delivery"
- to a mailing list exploder. No further informa-
- tion is available; in particular, the tracking
- agent SHOULD NOT attempt further "downstream"
- tracking requests.
-
- relayed The message has been delivered into an environ-
- ment that does not support message tracking. No
- further information is available; in particular,
- the tracking agent SHOULD NOT attempt further
- "downstream" tracking requests.
-
- transferred The message has been transferred to another
- MTRK-compliant MTA. The tracking agent SHOULD
- attempt further "downstream" tracking requests.
-
- opaque The message may or may not have been seen by
- this system. No further information is avail-
- able or forthcoming.
-
- 3.3.4. Status field
-
- The Status field is defined as in RFC 1894 section
- 2.3.4. A new code is added to RFC 1893 [RFC-EMSSC],
- "Enhanced Mail System Status Codes",
-
- X.1.9 Message relayed to non-compliant mailer"
-
- The mailbox address specified was valid, but the mes-
- sage has been relayed to a system that does not speak
- this protocol; no further information can be pro-
- vided.
- A 2.1.9 Status field MUST be used exclusively with a
- "relayed" Action field. This field is REQUIRED.
-
- 3.3.5. Remote-MTA field
-
- The Remote-MTA field is defined as in section Reference
- 2.3.5 of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field MUST NOT be included if
- no delivery attempts have been made or if the Action field
- has value "opaque". If delivery to some agent other than an
- MTA (for example, a Local Delivery Agent) then this field MAY
- be included, giving the name of the host on which that agent
- was contacted.
-
- 3.3.6. Last-Attempt-Date field
-
- The Last-Attempt-Date field is defined as in section
- Reference 2.3.7 of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED if
- any delivery attempt has been made, in which case it will
- specify when it last attempted to deliver this message to
- another MTA or other Delivery Agent. This field MUST NOT be
- included if no delivery attempts have been made.
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- 3.3.7. Will-Retry-Until field
-
- The Will-Retry-Until field is defined as in section Ref-
- erence 2.3.8 of [RFC-DSN-STAT]. This field is REQUIRED if
- the message is still in the MTA queue. This field MUST NOT
- be included if the message is not in the local queue.
-
- 3.4. Extension fields
-
- Future extension fields may be defined as defined in sec-
- tion 2.4 of [RFC-DSN-STAT].
-
- 3.5. Interaction Between MTAs and LDAs
-
- A message that has been delivered to an LDA that under-
- stands message tracking (in particular, an LDA speaking LMTP
- [RFC-LMTP] that supports the MTRK extension) SHOULD pass the
- tracking request to the LDA. In this case, the Action field for
- the MTA->LDA exchange will look the same as a transfer to a com-
- pliant MTA; that is, a "transferred" tracking status will be
- issued.
-
-
-4. Security Issues
-
- 4.1. Forgery
-
- Malicious servers may attempt to subvert message tracking
- and return false information. This could result in misdirection
- or misinterpretation of results.
-
- 4.2. Confidentiality
-
- Another dimension of security is confidentiality. There
- may be cases in which a message recipient is autoforwarding mes-
- sages but does not wish to divulge the address to which the mes-
- sages are autoforwarded. The desire for such confidentiality
- will probably be heightened as "wireless mailboxes", such as
- pagers, become more widely used as autoforward addresses.
-
- MTA authors are encouraged to provide a mechanism which
- enables the end user to preserve the confidentiality of a for-
- warding address. Depending on the degree of confidentiality
- required, and the nature of the environment to which a message
- were being forwarded, this might be accomplished by one or more
- of:
-
- (a) respond with a "relayed" tracking status when a message is
- forwarded to a confidential forwarding address, and dis-
- abling further message tracking requests.
-
- (b) declaring the message to be delivered, issuing a "deliv-
- ered" tracking status, re-sending the message to the confi-
- dential forwarding address, and disabling further message
- tracking requests.
-
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- The tracking algorithms MUST NOT allow tracking through
- list expansions. When a message is delivered to a list, a
- tracking request MUST respond with an "expanded" tracking status
- and MUST NOT display the contents of the list.
-
-5. References
-
- [DRAFT-MTRK-MODEL]
- T. Hansen, ``Message Tracking Model and Requirements.''
- draft-ietf-msgtrk-model-03.txt. November 2000.
-
- [DRAFT-MTRK-MTQP]
- T. Hansen, ``Message Tracking Query Protocol.'' draft-ietf-
- msgtrk-mtqp-01.txt. November 2000.
-
- [DRAFT-MTRK-SMTPEXT]
- E. Allman, ``SMTP Service Extension for Message Tracking.''
- draft-ietf-msgtrk-smtpext-00.txt. December 2000.
-
- [RFC-ABNF]
- Crocker, D., Editor, and P. Overell, ``Augmented BNF for Syn-
- tax Specifications: ABNF'', RFC 2234, November 1997.
-
- [RFC-DSN-REPT]
- G. Vaudreuil, ``The Multipart/Report Content Type for the
- Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages.'' RFC 1892.
- January 1996.
-
- [RFC-DSN-SMTP]
- K. Moore, ``SMTP Service Extension for Delivery Status Notifi-
- cations.'' RFC 1891. January 1996.
-
- [RFC-DSN-STAT]
- K. Moore and G. Vaudreuil, ``An Extensible Message Format for
- Delivery Status Notifications.'' RFC 1894. January 1996.
-
- [RFC-EMSSC]
- G. Vaudreuil, ``Enhanced Mail System Status Codes.'' RFC
- 1893. January 1996.
-
- [RFC-ESMTP]
- Rose, M., Stefferud, E., Crocker, D., Klensin, J. and N.
- Freed, ``SMTP Service Extensions.'' STD 10, RFC 1869. Novem-
- ber 1995.
-
- [RFC-HOSTREQ]
- R. Braden (ed.), ``Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Applica-
- tion and Support.'' STD 3, RFC 1123. October 1989.
-
- [RFC-KEYWORDS]
- S. Bradner, ``Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Require-
- ment Levels.'' RFC 2119. March 1997.
-
- [RFC-LMTP]
- J. Myers, ``Local Mail Transfer Protocol.'' RFC 2033. Octo-
- ber 1996.
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- [RFC-MDN]
- R. Fajman, ``An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposi-
- tion Notifications.'' RFC 2298. March 1998.
-
- [RFC-MIME]
- N. Freed and N. Borenstein, ``Multipurpose Internet Mail
- Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bod-
- ies.'' RFC 2045. November 1996.
-
- [RFC-MSGFMT]
- D. Crocker, ``Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
- Messages.'' RFC 822. August 1982.
-
- [RFC-RELATED]
- E. Levinson, ``The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type.'' RFC
- 2387. August 1998.
-
-6. Author's Address
-
- Eric Allman
- Sendmail, Inc.
- 6603 Shellmound
- Emeryville, CA 94608
- U.S.A.
-
- E-Mail: eric@Sendmail.COM
- Phone: +1 510 594 5501
- Fax: +1 510 594 5411
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-MSGTRK BOF G. Jones [gbjones@mitre.org]
-INTERNET-DRAFT B. Ernst [bruce_ernst@lotus.ssw.com]
-draft-ietf-jones-msgtrk-def-00.txt G. Vaudreuil [gregv@ons.octel.com]
-Expires: February 1999
-
-
-
-
-
- Basic Definition of Message Tracking
-
-
-Status of this Memo
-
-This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are working
-documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas,
-and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
-working documents as Internet Drafts.
-
-Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by
-other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet
-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a "working
-draft" or "work in progress."
-
-To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check
-the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
-Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Northern
-Europe), ftp.nis.garr.it (Southern Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim),
-ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), or ftp.isi.edu(US West Coast).
-
-
-Abstract
-
-This document defines message tracking as a prelude to the creation of
-a message tracking model. Message tracking is a messaging management
-function; it provides the ability to find out, after the fact, the path
-that a particular message took through the messaging system, the current
-status of that message, and its characteristics.
-
-
-Definition
-
-Message tracking refers, in its simplest form, to determining the path an
-RFC822 message has taken, its current location, and its characteristics.
-Message tracking allows the originator of a message to issue a request
-about a previously sent message, the answer to which contains the delivery
-status, delivery time, delivered recipients, and other information about
-the message. This is different from the delivery status notification (DSN)
-function in use today, because DSNs are requested at the time of submission
-and are generated automatically; alternatively a tracking request is
-generated independently of the previously submitted message's status and is
-done so on demand.
-
-This capability is analogous to the service provided by carriers of
-conventional paper mail - the ability to quickly locate where a package is,
-and to determine whether or not the package has been delivered to its
-destination. An Internet-standard approach will allow development of
-message tracking applications that can operate in a multi-vendor messaging
-environment, and will encourage operation of the function across
-administrative boundaries.
-
-One might ask: why should there be a standard for message tracking when
-Internet domains will be unwilling to open themselves up to outside
-tracking requests ? This is one reason why we design and implement
-Internet standards. So that there is a reliable, secure, agreed upon
-mechanism for message tracking that people will be willing to use.
-
-Companies have implemented and are implementing message tracking today.
-Standardization of this technique will aid the Internet user community,
-make Internet messaging more profitable, and fulfill a key messaging
-management need.
-
-
-Reasons for Message Tracking
-
-Message tracking is useful for determining the whereabouts and status of
-"lost" messages, and for several other purposes:
-
-o When there is a lack of trust in the messaging system, such as when an
-originator claims a message failed to be delivered, the point of failure
-may be isolated. This includes messages that were never delivered or
-messages that were delivered incorrectly. Message tracking thus adds to the
-overall reliability of the mail system;
-
-o Per-message information can be used for accounting, billing, and
-performance purposes. Traffic can be itemized on a per-origin or per-
-destination basis by system or originator. This typically involves two
-steps - collection of message traffic data, followed by the gehe time they
-are submitted to an MTA up until the time a network of MTAs discharges the
-message onward to another entity (e.g. a proprietary mail server, IMAP
-server, and so on).
-
-o Message tracking information adds security in that the origins of
-potential security threats can be more precisely determined. If a system
-were flooded with traffic, for instance, the origin of this traffic would
-become known. Message tracking information is suitable for routine security
-audits containing the details of messaging traffic over specific time
-intervals;
-
-o End-to-end delivery time could be measured;
-
-o Message tracking would aid in message loop detection, since unique
-message identifiers of looping messages, when these exist, would be
-recorded multiple times;
-
-o Performance characteristics about the type of messaging traffic could be
-determined, such as when an inbound message causes the creation of multiple
-outbound messages, and the percentage of messages that were actually
-delivery reports or receipts. This is valuable for performance
-measurement, among other reasons;
-
-o Standardized message tracking information acts as a bridge between
-dissimilar messaging systems and dissimilar messaging communities;
-
-
-Tracking Messages on the Public Internet
-
-One might ask: why bother to track messages if a majority of public
-Internet traffic is point to point; messages don't live long enough to be
-trackable, and are not an interesting event to track since you always
-know the next point ? Just because you know where a message went that
-doesn't mean you know what happened to it, how fast it got there, or what
-was in it. As the Internet is used more and more for commercial/official
-purposes a logging function is commonly embedded in the messaging system
-internally. Even if most of the message traffic is point to point, this
-point-to-point traffic is inter-domain, across firewalls, and thus it is
-even more important to have a reliable tracking mechanism that
-organizations can agree on. It is something that intra-domain messaging
-users want. Even if 95% of transactions are point to point, the 5% that is
-non point-to-point is still a huge amount of traffic, and this is exactly
-the traffic that users will want to track. Once messaging traffic enters an
-intranet or domain of any size it invariably encounters a more hierarchical
-routing structure.
-
-
-Who is Allowed to Track Messages
-
-Only the originators of messages are allowed to track their messages.
-Optionally, an originator may delegate this responsibility to a third
-party, but this is left for future study.
-
-
-How Tracking is Done: Requests and Responses
-
-The originator will issue a message tracking request using the Unique
-Message Identifier plus security information. The originator (of both
-the message and the query at this point) will receive optional response
-criteria such as the message disposition, delivered recipients, delivery
-time, and the names of MTAs that handled the message.
-
-
-Security for Message Originators
-
-One option for message security is that the originator calculates a hash A
-to be equal to the hash of the message ID + time stamp + a per-user secret.
-The user then calculates hash B to be the hash of A. The user includes B in
-the submitted message, and retains A. Later, when the user makes a message
-tracking request to the messaging system or tracking entity, it submits A
-in the racking request. The entity receiving the tracking request then uses
-A to calculate B, since it was already provided B, verifying that the
-requestor is authentic. Summarily
-
-A = H(message ID + time stamp + secret)
-B = H(A)
-
-If the originator of a message were to delegate his or her tracking request
-to a third party by sending them A, this would be vulnerable to snooping
-over unencrypted sessions, but the user can decide on a message-by-message
-basis if this risk is acceptable.
-
-
-Three Possible Architectures
-
-There are ways of accomplishing message tracking without mandating the
-addition of large amounts of new infrastructure on the participants.
-Optionally, if more infrastructure is proven to be a good and necessary
-thing, it should be considered.
-
-In all cases, messages are only tracked from the time they are submitted
-to an MTA up until the time a network of MTAs discharges the message
-onward to another entity (e.g. a proprietary mail server, IMAP server, and
-so on).
-
-The three architectural alternatives offered by the start-up working group
-to date might be called "ask later", "ask now", and "ask someone else."
-
-Under "ask later", a user requests tracking as a service when submitting a
-message, and then at a later time issues a separate tracking request to the
-mail system. The user receives a response to the request from the tracking
-entity. This has the advantage of being deployable within the existing SMTP
-infrastructure.
-
-Under "ask now", a user requests tracking as a service while submitting a
-message, and receives a step-by-step report contemporaneously from each MTA
-that handles the message. This provides the user with a high level of
-service, but also causes extra overhead: an additional message generated
-for each hop the original message takes.
-
-Under "ask someone else", the user issues a separate message tracking
-request to an entity other than the messaging system at a later time.
-The user receives a response to the request from this same third-party
-tracking entity. This has the advantage of allowing tracking to occur when
-the messaging process has failed but the platform is still working. It also
-off-loads the tracking function from the messaging system itself. It may,
-however, require new infrastructure in order to support it.
-
-One possibility would be to implement "ask now" and "ask later" as SMTP
-extensions. One could implement "ask someone else" as a UDP- or TCP-based
-protocol, among other options.
-
-
-Acknowledgments
-
-Thanks to all those who participated in the message tracking meetings.
-Many thanks to Ned Freed and Harald Alvesrand for the hashing material.
-
-
-Internet Draft Expires February 1999 Internet Draft
-
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-MSGTRK BOF G. Jones [TomorrowSys@yahoo.com]
-INTERNET-DRAFT B. Ernst [bruce_ernst@lotus.ssw.com]
-draft-jones-msgtrk-def-01.txt G. Vaudreuil [gregv@ons.octel.com]
-Expires: September 1999
-
-
-
-
-
- Basic Definition of Message Tracking
-
-
-Status of this Memo
-
-This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with
-all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026.
-
-This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are working
-documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas,
-and its Working Groups. Note that other groups may also distribute
-working documents as Internet Drafts.
-
-Internet Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six
-months. Internet Drafts may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by
-other documents at any time. It is not appropriate to use Internet
-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as a "working
-draft" or "work in progress."
-
-To view the entire list of current Internet-Drafts, please check
-the "1id-abstracts.txt" listing contained in the Internet-Drafts
-Shadow Directories on ftp.is.co.za (Africa), ftp.nordu.net (Northern
-Europe), ftp.nis.garr.it (Southern Europe), munnari.oz.au (Pacific Rim),
-ftp.ietf.org (US East Coast), or ftp.isi.edu(US West Coast).
-
-
-Abstract
-
-This document defines message tracking as a prelude to the creation of
-a message tracking model. Message tracking is a messaging management
-function; it provides the ability to find out, after the fact, the path
-that a particular message took through the messaging system, the current
-status of that message, and its characteristics.
-
-
-Definition
-
-Message tracking refers, in its simplest form, to determining the path an
-RFC822 message has taken, its current location, and its characteristics.
-Message tracking allows the originator of a message to issue a request
-about a previously sent message, the answer to which contains the delivery
-status, delivery time, delivered recipients, and other information about
-the message. This is different from the delivery status notification (DSN)
-function in use today, because DSNs are requested at the time of submission
-and are generated automatically; alternatively a tracking request is
-generated independently of the previously submitted message's status and is
-done so on demand.
-
-This capability is analogous to the service provided by carriers of
-conventional paper mail - the ability to quickly locate where a package is,
-and to determine whether or not the package has been delivered to its
-destination. An Internet-standard approach will allow development of
-message tracking applications that can operate in a multi-vendor messaging
-environment, and will encourage operation of the function across
-administrative boundaries.
-
-One might ask: why should there be a standard for message tracking when
-Internet domains will be unwilling to open themselves up to outside
-tracking requests ? This is one reason why we design and implement
-Internet standards. So that there is a reliable, secure, agreed upon
-mechanism for message tracking that people will be willing to use.
-
-Companies have implemented and are implementing message tracking today.
-Standardization of this technique will aid the Internet user community,
-make Internet messaging more profitable, and fulfill a key messaging
-management need.
-
-
-Reasons for Message Tracking
-
-Message tracking is useful for determining the whereabouts and status of
-"lost" messages, and for several other purposes:
-
-o When there is a lack of trust in the messaging system, such as when an
-originator claims a message failed to be delivered, the point of failure
-may be isolated. This includes messages that were never delivered or
-messages that were delivered incorrectly. Message tracking thus adds to the
-overall reliability of the mail system;
-
-o Per-message information can be used for accounting, billing, and
-performance purposes. Traffic can be itemized on a per-origin or per-
-destination basis by system or originator. This typically involves two
-steps - collection of message traffic data, followed by the gehe time they
-are submitted to an MTA up until the time a network of MTAs discharges the
-message onward to another entity (e.g. a proprietary mail server, IMAP
-server, and so on).
-
-o Message tracking information adds security in that the origins of
-potential security threats can be more precisely determined. If a system
-were flooded with traffic, for instance, the origin of this traffic would
-become known. Message tracking information is suitable for routine security
-audits containing the details of messaging traffic over specific time
-intervals;
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-o End-to-end delivery time could be measured;
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-o Message tracking would aid in message loop detection, since unique
-message identifiers of looping messages, when these exist, would be
-recorded multiple times;
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-o Performance characteristics about the type of messaging traffic could be
-determined, such as when an inbound message causes the creation of multiple
-outbound messages, and the percentage of messages that were actually
-delivery reports or receipts. This is valuable for performance
-measurement, among other reasons;
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-o Standardized message tracking information acts as a bridge between
-dissimilar messaging systems and dissimilar messaging communities;
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-Tracking Messages on the Public Internet
-
-One might ask: why bother to track messages if a majority of public
-Internet traffic is point to point; messages don't live long enough to be
-trackable, and are not an interesting event to track since you always
-know the next point ? Just because you know where a message went that
-doesn't mean you know what happened to it, how fast it got there, or what
-was in it. As the Internet is used more and more for commercial/official
-purposes a logging function is commonly embedded in the messaging system
-internally. Even if most of the message traffic is point to point, this
-point-to-point traffic is inter-domain, across firewalls, and thus it is
-even more important to have a reliable tracking mechanism that
-organizations can agree on. It is something that intra-domain messaging
-users want. Even if 95% of transactions are point to point, the 5% that is
-non point-to-point is still a huge amount of traffic, and this is exactly
-the traffic that users will want to track. Once messaging traffic enters an
-intranet or domain of any size it invariably encounters a more hierarchical
-routing structure.
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-Who is Allowed to Track Messages
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-Only the originators of messages are allowed to track their messages.
-Optionally, an originator may delegate this responsibility to a third
-party, but this is left for future study.
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-How Tracking is Done: Requests and Responses
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-The originator will issue a message tracking request using the Unique
-Message Identifier plus security information. The originator (of both
-the message and the query at this point) will receive optional response
-criteria such as the message disposition, delivered recipients, delivery
-time, and the names of MTAs that handled the message.
-
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-Security for Message Originators
-
-One option for message security is that the originator calculates a hash A
-to be equal to the hash of the message ID + time stamp + a per-user secret.
-The user then calculates hash B to be the hash of A. The user includes B in
-the submitted message, and retains A. Later, when the user makes a message
-tracking request to the messaging system or tracking entity, it submits A
-in the racking request. The entity receiving the tracking request then uses
-A to calculate B, since it was already provided B, verifying that the
-requestor is authentic. Summarily
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-A = H(message ID + time stamp + secret)
-B = H(A)
-
-If the originator of a message were to delegate his or her tracking request
-to a third party by sending them A, this would be vulnerable to snooping
-over unencrypted sessions, but the user can decide on a message-by-message
-basis if this risk is acceptable.
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-Three Possible Architectures
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-There are ways of accomplishing message tracking without mandating the
-addition of large amounts of new infrastructure on the participants.
-Optionally, if more infrastructure is proven to be a good and necessary
-thing, it should be considered.
-
-In all cases, messages are only tracked from the time they are submitted
-to an MTA up until the time a network of MTAs discharges the message
-onward to another entity (e.g. a proprietary mail server, IMAP server, and
-so on).
-
-The three architectural alternatives offered by the start-up working group
-to date might be called "ask later", "ask now", and "ask someone else."
-
-Under "ask later", a user requests tracking as a service when submitting a
-message, and then at a later time issues a separate tracking request to the
-mail system. The user receives a response to the request from the tracking
-entity. This has the advantage of being deployable within the existing SMTP
-infrastructure.
-
-Under "ask now", a user requests tracking as a service while submitting a
-message, and receives a step-by-step report contemporaneously from each MTA
-that handles the message. This provides the user with a high level of
-service, but also causes extra overhead: an additional message generated
-for each hop the original message takes.
-
-Under "ask someone else", the user issues a separate message tracking
-request to an entity other than the messaging system at a later time.
-The user receives a response to the request from this same third-party
-tracking entity. This has the advantage of allowing tracking to occur when
-the messaging process has failed but the platform is still working. It also
-off-loads the tracking function from the messaging system itself. It may,
-however, require new infrastructure in order to support it.
-
-One possibility would be to implement "ask now" and "ask later" as SMTP
-extensions. One could implement "ask someone else" as a UDP- or TCP-based
-protocol, among other options.
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-Acknowledgments
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-Thanks to all those who participated in the message tracking meetings.
-Many thanks to Ned Freed and Harald Alvesrand for the hashing material.
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-Internet Draft Expires September 1999 Internet Draft
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